The popularity of electric fencing has led to an increase in thefts of expensive energisers. The very fact that a battery-driven electric fence energiser is left in remote rural areas, invariably on the edge of fields, means that they’re easy targets for thieves. Now, however, Germany’s Horizont Electric Fencing has produced a range of energisers that’s equipped to try and tackle this problem.
Supplied through Agrisellex UK, models like the HotShot A50 features active electronics that are able to register that the energiser has been tampered with. As the energiser is moved or removed from the input power source the electronics register this change and send a text message to a pre-set mobile number. This function will remove the fear that a fence will be compromised and ineffective while predators invade, or your valuable animals escape to pastures new.
The GPS Anti-Theft function immediately notifies you that a theft has taken place the minute the unit is disconnected, and it will then transmit the co-ordinates of the energiser, together with its current speed over the ground. This location can be viewed directly on Google Maps using a standard smartphone. This signal will be transmitted for 48 hours, allowing you to track it and recover it from a possible theft situation.
A second highly useful function of the electric fence energiser is that it will notify you via your mobile phone when the energy in the fence drops below a pre-determined point, allowing you to investigate a problem before a catastrophe occurs. The same function will allow you to switch the energiser off remotely when you find the fault via an application on you ‘phone. As soon as the necessary repairs are completed, the fence may again be switched on. This function removes the necessity of traipsing back and forth to switch off the energiser to effect repairs to the fence.
The system also monitors the energy availability in the battery and if it drops below a pre-determined level it will notify you accordingly. Coupled with this is a load-sensing circuitry that will adjust the demand on the battery according to the load on the fence, so reducing battery consumption and making the energiser ideal for solar applications.”
For more information visit: www.agrisellex.co.uk.
