Vincent van Walt's
Travel Journal

Build, test, validate and then deploy

21st October 2024

In my previous blogs covering the initial phases of building telemetry systems I have talked about the importance of setting and agreeing clear requirements and the importance of a site visit.  In this...

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Understanding the requirements – Part 2

8th July 2024

In a previous blog I wrote about the need for clear requirements and why we ask so many questions. To recap, in summary - we cannot recommend, build and install a solution to meet your demands without...

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A lesson in Critical thinking..

14th March 2024

Socrates would have been proud of us last week.. The level of discussion and uncertainty that ensued over what appeared to be a simple question evolved into multiple email chains that deserved to be discussed...

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Understanding the requirements

24th January 2024

It’s a common occurrence - we receive a request for pricing to measure a parameter or series of parameters on telemetry. But to do our job properly and give you the best service we need more information,...

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Are you SLA-ing?

17th November 2023

Have you been SLA-ing?

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Whisky and Paracetamol…Epilogue

23rd April 2023

 

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Whisky and Paracetamol – When the customer assists in a multi-sensor network installation

17th April 2023

There is no doubt that our best telemetric installations have been when the customer has been involved proactively and the recent network delivered to Vindolanda is no exception.

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You need to measure Nitrates? There are options!

25th January 2022

Nitrogen is an essential food for plant growth.  In order to get that Nitrogen, plants will assimilate it in a large way in the form of Nitrates. Those three atoms of Oxygen and one atom of Nitrogen produce...

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Van Walt goes to Kenya

29th December 2021

Kenya December 2021

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