Metris
New Zealand
Metris is a weather stations and sensors enabled web and mobile app based solution to manage weather forecasting. It helps farmers to reduce weather risk and plan their day and your week through integrated forecasting, measurement and seasonal climate reports. The solution's benefits for horticulture include 1) Daily crop specific forecasts for apple and stonefruit 2) Decision support for chemical thinning 3) Blackspot and brownrot risk forecasting and infection period modeling 4) Spray window forecast 5) Frost fighting decision support. It's benefits for Cropping and Agriculture include 1) Long range weather forecasting 2) Remote rain gauges and weather stations 3) Weekly, monthly and seasonal weather summaries 4) PET measurements and forecasts 5) Spray condition modelling.
Digital Solution (DS) Category
Digital Agriculture
Digital Solution Type (sub-category)
Weather forecasting, Farm advisory services, Precision agriculture
Delivery type (format)
Internet of Things / sensors
Mobile app
Web based platform
Cloud-based
DS supplier-user category
Business to business
Business to consumers
Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)
Agribusiness / private company
Name of supplier/developer
Metris Limited.
Primary Users
Farmers , Agribusiness / private company
Digital Solution Development Stage
Commercial stage (broad use use locally)
Number of users or subscribers
Measurable positive impact(s) by Digital Solution (DS) on target users and/or audience
Digital Solution Geographic scope
All over New Zealand
Name of Digital village(s), districts, communes where DS is used/deployed
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
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