Vincent van Walt's Travel Journal

Build, test, validate and then deploy

October 21, 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

July 8, 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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Sampling equipment does not need to be expensive

April 18, 2024

… especially when it concerns sampling for (soil) pore water.

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When inches and millimetres matter

March 18, 2024

Despite being of an age when we learned metric alongside imperial, I find it difficult to do the mental gymnastics to convert a foot into centimetres. The grey cells are totally overwhelmed when I’m...

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A lesson in Critical thinking..

March 14, 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

January 24, 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?

November 17, 2023

Have you been SLA-ing?

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Whisky and Paracetamol…Epilogue

April 23, 2023

 

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

April 17, 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!

January 25, 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

December 29, 2021

Kenya December 2021

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Why do Bees Build Hexagons?

September 23, 2021

Mathematician Thomas Hales explains the Honeycomb Conjecture in the context of bees. Hales proved that the hexagon tiling (hexagonal honeycomb) is the most efficient way to maximise area whilst minimising...

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