Farmblox Surpasses 1 Million Acres of Coverage as COP-R-LOCK Marks One Year With Zero Thefts at Protected Sites

Summary

Morning Ag Clips carries Farmblox’s announcement that its platform now covers nearly 1 million acres across the United States, as COP-R-LOCK reaches its first anniversary.

Farmblox reports that COP-R-LOCK, its copper theft monitoring system, has stopped every detected theft attempt at its deployed sites, with no theft reported since launch. The system detects tampering with copper wiring on irrigation pumps, solar panels and other equipment, sounds an on-site alarm and alerts operators through the Farmblox app.

The announcement names COP-R-LOCK as the main driver of the company’s growth and of its move beyond agriculture into solar energy, utilities and other critical infrastructure. Ray Yeung of Chan & Yeung Inc., a California pistachio and row-crop operation, says the farm has had no problems since it installed the system.

CEO and co-founder Nathan Rosenberg says the milestone shows the demand for better ways to monitor, manage and protect remote infrastructure. The acreage and theft figures come from Farmblox’s own announcement, which the outlet publishes.