SpraySync tracks your noxious weed spraying and sends it to the cloud to greatly simplify and speed up your reporting.
Your GPS data will sync wirelessly to the cloud when you have an internet connection. Then just log in, click a button to export the data, and send it off to your customer. KML and Shapefiles supported. You can also invite another person directly to run reports and exports themselves.
No need to plug anything into a computer to download your data. Your GPS data, weeds selected, spray swath, and paper log entries for wind and are all wirelessly sent to a secure server.
I’ve been in the noxious weed spraying business for 20 years, and reporting has always been difficult. The current system needs to be improved. The capabilities for tracking weeds and spraying is limited, reporting takes a lot of time, and integrity of data is often questionable. I teamed up with an expert developer to modernize the way we track weed spraying. After you see a demo, you’ll understand why I’m excited about this.”
Ryan WalkerWalker’s Lawncare LLC
See your GPS accuracy at all times and confirm visually you are in the correct location with a real-time map showing your location. Avoid data surprises where you find out after a day of spraying your data was missed or located in the wrong place.
No need to write down wind speed, direction, temp, time and location for your reporting. Enter all that information directly on the tablet along with a digital signature. Logs will also sync and you can download an Excel file to send to your customer for reporting purposes. Talk to us about your reporting process, we can build any custom forms you need.
SpraySync Walk-Through
Part 2 - Android app spraying and web site setup
Sprayer Hardware Videos
Software Videos
North Dakota-specific Right of Way Daily Record Report Form Export Format
We have different guides that we have created for hardware, software, and specific sprayers. We recommend using the above video tutorials as one way of learning how our software and hardware works to map your spraying, but was have these documents as alternatives.
See data from some customers in 2023 that has been mapped with SpraySync. This was built using our Shapefile export.
Our price consists of an initial purchase for the hardware and then an annual service license.
We currently have one SpraySync Monitor Box that we use for all spray equipment.
The initial purchase price for the SpraySync WT1 Bundle is $3,500 which includes:
Optional (not included) items with the WT1 Bundle:
The first calendar year spray season of service, the year you are invoiced, is included free with initial purchase. The annual recurring license is $500/yr base + $300/yr per monitor box you purchase. As an example, you have 4 monitor boxes, annual fee is $1,700/yr = $500/yr + ($300/yr x 4).
No additional fees for users, unlimited users, unlimited jobs. Cell phone plan not included for tablet but can be added on, the tablets support it.
We offer on-site installation and training. The minimum price for this is $750 but depends on the distance from our sprayer installers based in Idaho and North Dakota, and also the number of sprayers and complexity of the setup. We will determine the install price in our quoting process.
Our mobile app works only on Android tablets. When you buy a WT1 bundle from us, it will contain a Samsung Galaxy Tab Active5 with Verizon cell plan capability. Our preferred tablets are the Samsung Galaxy Tab Active5 and larger Active4 Pro. They are dust-proof, waterproof, and have custom fit tablet mounts.
There are a couple tablet mounts we use that are custom fit to the Active5 tablet. One is from RAM Mounts (RAM-HOL-SAM60PU) but require slight modifications by our engineering team to work properly. For this reason, we only offer the RAM mount version through us not off the shelf. The Active4 Pro mount works off the shelf.
A cell phone plan is not required while spraying, but it does mean that you cannot take advantage of all our features like Bring Your Own Data and some features coming soon in the future. We know that a cell phone plan can be an extra cost, so we do not require an internet connection while spraying. Once you get back home and connect to Wifi, the tablet will automatically sync.
We have incorporated offline satellite maps to still allow for having some landmark detail while spraying offline or to help save data costs if you do not have an unlimited data plan.
All of your spraying data saves to the tablet first and foremost. So if there is no cell data plan, or coverage is spotty, your data is safe. Once we do get a good internet connection, we sync the data to the web site.
We know it's impossible to know what everyone's sprayer setup will look like. Our SpraySync WT1 monitor box can take up to 11 powered signals and up to 4 non-powered signals like flow switches (2 wire flow or no-flow). We believe this will allow us to support the widest variety of sprayers out there, from direct injection multiple zone sprayers to ATVs with hose reels.
By including our voltage monitoring circuitry inside our monitor box, it has allowed us to build wiring harnesses to easily integrate with sprayer controllers. This makes install as easy as snapping into existing connectors. We built wiring harnesses for these controller systems:
Our WT1 monitor box can be used for nearly all ATV/UTV/Truck sprayers, big and small, so you can swap boxes between vehicles, and we can build these wiring harnesses to make the integration easy.
Yes, we do on-site installation for a cost that depends on how far you are from our nearest installer. Our minimum price is $750. We have installers based in North Dakota and Idaho.
We track hose reel or hand wand spraying with a couple different strategies.
We can install a physical flow switch inline that relays on/off state of the switch back to the tablet. The spraying can be tracked either as a point, line, or a swath/polygon similar to boom spraying.
If you want to avoid the physical flow switch installation, we also have software-only features to Add a Spray Point to drop a pin on the map.
SpraySync is under active development, many features are being worked on, including…
Tracking mosquito fogging and some hose reel applications measure applications in ounces per minute.
Opt-in to tracking last known location of the sprayer in addition to where you had the sprayer turned on (Requires cell data plan).
Some sprayers do not use a tank mix, and instead use direct injection to bring in the chemicals. The injection tanks are connected to switches. Planning on having that switch map to a chemical load or individual chemical inside those loads.
Planning on adding a few more filters to allow more fine-grained reporting.
Opt-in to tracking where you drove and scouted in addition to where you had the sprayer turned on.
Alternative to downloading the layer as a shapefile and uploading, we want to connect to the data source directly so we always have the most recent data.
See detailed satellite maps while spraying even if you do not have a cell phone plan.
Ability to add custom layers like spray/no-spray maps, scouting maps, parcel/landowner maps. View Youtube demo video
We streamline reporting by granting direct access to your customer so they can download data any time.
To allow swapping the tablet between different sprayers, we will allow a vehicle setup to be saved along with the switch configation.
A map view was added directly to the web site dashboard so you can preview your spray maps without having to export first. View Youtube demo video
Track your hose reel spraying as a line or as a point on your spray maps. Also added a software-only alternative to a physical flow switch where you can "Add a Spray Point" that drops a point on the map.
When you download an Excel export of your Temp/Wind Forms, they now can include an image of your spray maps. View Youtube demo video
Add exportable GPS data in both KML and Shapefiles, you can also view your spray maps by weed (each weed is a layer).
Sprayer broke down? Need to pick up where someone left off? See their last location on your map.
Allow a digital signature to be collected for daily logs to meet reporting requirements.
Ability to create custom forms that you can add extra information alongside the automatically included location, acres applied, chemical amounts applied, weeds controlled.
Added capability to have an overall tank mix flow rate specified to allow us tracking tank mix in addition to each chemical you have diluted in the mix.
If you think we need to add a feature, we’d love to hear about it. Contact us to chat about your challenges and how we can help you.
