Fliegl’s beacon-based vehicle tracker has won another international award for its use of Bluetooth technology to promote food safety. Having been awarded a silver medal by the German Agricultural Society (DLG) at Agritechnica last year, the Fliegl Tracker was recently named overall winner of the Bluetooth Breakthrough Awards 2016, in Las Vegas. The manufacturer believes the battery-operated tracker will help fill a much needed gap in the market for a system to make it easier for growers to improve traceability from the field though to the warehouse. In operation Bluetooth transmitters mounted on both combine harvesters and road-going trucks or trailers allow farmers to clearly identify each harvesting vehicle. The chaser bin operating between them is equipped with the Fliegl Weighing System, and the combination of this with beacon-equipped vehicles enables the chaser bin to detect from which combine harvester it is being loaded, and into which truck or trailer the contents are emptied. For each road-going trailer equipped with a beacon, a record can be created in the job computer that associates its respective payload, and the discharge of grain from the chaser bin stops automatically once the trailer’s permissible weight has been reached. Available from Fliegl UK’s Lincolnshire headquarters, the small, lightweight, waterproof and virtually maintenance-free beacons can be fitted to vehicles from all manufacturers.