Digital Solution
Metris

country 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)

Main DS webpage

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