KOREC lands substantial RPA order

09 April 2010, 10:41am

Image 1: The RPA has taken delivery of 194 Juno SC’s with FastMap iCapture on-board

KOREC is delighted to announce that the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) has just taken delivery of 194 Trimble Juno SC handhelds with FastMap iCapture software on-board.

As an Executive Agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) responsible for making rural payments, carrying out rural inspections, and livestock tracing, the RPA will be using the newly acquired units to equip its team of land inspectors in a move away from using the more traditional land wheel.

The RPA Inspectorate’s Business Development Manager Richard Anderson explains, “The RPA is a forward looking organisation and whilst introducing new technology to Government can be slow, the European Commission is pushing for an increase in digital work methods. We don’t need high accuracy GPS - the 2-5m offered by the Juno SC is more than adequate for our requirements - but we do need a unit that is portable, easy to use, offers a good screen size and is capable of running for a whole day in the field on a single battery charge. The Juno SC meets all these criteria and also has a built in camera which means that we can time and date stamp our photos. Few devices offer this quality of GPS combined with a high end PDA, it’s as if the Juno SC was purpose made for our requirements.”

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