SnailCam founder and developer
Esperance, WA
Joined March 2022
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Built GraiNav for our farm so seasonal staff find their way round efficiently and safely. Every machine live, coverage for seeding, spraying and harvest, drain and power line warnings. Looking for other farms for testing! Android now, iPhone soon: grainav.com.au #ausag
Growers often ask if SnailCam could map mouse burrows in paddocks.
I ran some tests, and the results look promising. The system can detect burrow openings and map them across the paddock.
This could enable variable-rate mouse baiting instead of blanket spreading.
Spending few days in Melbourne to see the newest Agtech innovations @evokeAG – at Melbourne, Victoria
I will travel to SA tomorrow to check how SnailCam went at York Peninsula. If anyone wants to catch up on Thursday/Friday, and discuss possible use of SnailCam, let me know! – at Western Australia, Australia
SnailCam has been awarded the 2025 Innovation Booster Grant.
This supports our new data-visualisation platform to turn millions of detections into clear, practical maps for growers — helping target baiting, reduce costs, and make better decisions.
Big milestone for the project.
The snails seem to like current weather conditions, it helps if you know where they might pop up #snailcam – at Western Australia, Australia
After a long night of software debugging the first SnailCam setup has been shipped to South Australia, Yorke Peninsula for testing and data collection.
This is a conical snail mapping done 2024 (wheat) and 2025 (canola) harvest. It's been few dryish summers in a row so they have not been very active, and they have also been variable rate baited in the hotspots (50+ kg/ha). The detection model has been improved a lot since 2024.
Rain Plaado retweeted
Snails are tricky little buggers. Snail cam data processed into @Spectare_VRTS #jfg
Grateful to see SnailCam featured in Farm Weekly. What started as a small idea on the farm is now helping growers see exactly where snails are and target their control. Thanks to everyone supporting practical innovation in agriculture.
Thanks @farmweekly @KBridcutt
This is an example of how many images SnailCam is processing when your working speed is ~9km/h. This is over 9000 images per hour and it can do it day and night.
SnailCam shows you what is actually on the ground. Live detections in the cab help adjust sensitivity.
#SnailCam #PrecisionAg #Broadacre #SnailControl #AgTech #VariableRate #GrainGrowing
These are maps from 2025 seeding from Esperance area. Just raw detection data of conical snails. Green - no detection, yellow/red - snail detected. Max number of snails represents maximum number of snails detected within 5 meters/5 images.
Rain Plaado retweeted
Clever cameras and cleaner crushers are the latest weapons in the fight against pest snails in broadacre crops.
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