Customer Profile: BinSentry
BinSentry is an industry leader in feed ordering automation, delivering solutions that efficiently manage the most time-consuming and error-prone tasks within the livestock feed supply chain. Agricultural feed monitoring and inventory management have historically relied on rudimentary measurement techniques, such as livestock producers hitting the side of a feed bin with a mallet and using a load scale or vibration sensors to gauge feed levels. BinSentry’s platform leverages leading-edge technology to make feed bin monitoring more accurate, automated and connected, benefiting the producers and feed mills.
Business Challenges
Agriculture technology leader BinSentry realized the value that smart technology could bring to feed monitoring and designed its Feed Ordering Automation Platform in response. The company’s end-to-end solution ranges from IoT sensors that collect feed bin-level data on the farm to cloud-based software that transforms this data into actionable insights. Upon deployment of their platform, BinSentry began to face some increasingly complex challenges:
Globalgig Solution
Globalgig worked closely with BinSentry to design a service that would help the company increase reach while improving operational efficiency. The solution provided a seamless, single source of wireless connectivity for BinSentry’s IoT devices across all their global locations.
Powered by a small solar panel, BinSentry’s devices use LTE-M technology with 2G fallback, providing reduced power usage and better transmission ranges to provide more consistent coverage in rural markets.
Globalgig provided BinSentry with a single eSIM SKU, which included an automatic local profile, and additional SIMs to provide optimal coverage and pricing flexibility. With the Globalgig eSIM, BinSentry can now share data across LTE-M devices to optimize usage.
BinSentry was able to view and efficiently manage all Globalgig eSIM services and carriers through Orchestra Globalgig’s wireless management portal.
Results
By partnering with Globalgig, BinSentry achieved measurable success across its business, including:
- Streamlined feed inventory tracking and ordering.
- High-quality connectivity across rural locations to achieve better ROI for their platform.
- Enhanced operational efficiency and ability to scale globally, with one network partner, versus multiple networks, contracts, and currencies.
- Better feed demand forecasting with access to more accurate real-time data
- Increased control over their service via Orchestra, which delivered:
- SIM management across all wireless carriers, eliminating the need to access multiple carrier portals to activate or deactivate and manage SIMs.
- Full reporting capabilities – per SIM, location, user and device