From monitoring to mastery: how PATS-Kalendar helps growers act smarter
- Wouter Stam
- Apr 15
- 2 min read
Updated: 4 days ago
Sustainable cultivation isn’t just a vision, it’s a day-to-day challenge. With pests constantly threatening crop quality, growers are looking for smarter, more proactive ways to stay ahead. That’s where our latest innovation, PATS-Kalendar, comes in.
Officially launched in April, 2025, PATS-Kalendar is more than just a new feature. It’s the missing link between monitoring, intervention, and learning, and it’s already making a big difference in greenhouses around the globe.
Why Kalendar?
It’s simple: smart pest control starts with smart timing.
Until now, greenhouse growers had great tools for monitoring, like PATS-C, which observes moth pest activity nightly, or Trap-Eye™, Biobest’s and PATS’ high-density visual monitoring system for small flying insects like thrips and whitefly. But knowing what’s happening is just one part of the story.
The real magic happens when you combine pest pressure data with clear records of what actions were taken, when, and how effective they were. That’s what PATS-Kalendar does. It’s a digital logbook where growers can:
Plan and record interventions (product, timing, location)
Link interventions to pest population trends
Evaluate the impact on pest pressure
Plan better for the next cycle
This transforms pest control from reactive to strategic and preventive, saving growers time, money, and unnecessary (chemical) interventions.
Don't hesitate, and start using PATS-Kalendar today!
Real-world impact: Redwing Limited, Kenya
At Redwing Limited, a flower propagator in Kenya growing delicate crops like lisianthus and geraniums, the challenges of pest control are a daily reality. They’ve been using PATS-C to track nocturnal pests for the past six months.
Here’s what Simon Sayer, company director at Redwing, has to say:
“The system is very simple to install. The technology to track where insects are in the greenhouse and the time of day they are most active is an amazing advance in crop monitoring. Plus, the ability to visualize the immediate effect of intervention and chart this historically enables growers to be far more precise with chemical use and far more confident with biological controls.”
Now, with PATS-Kalendar added to the mix, Simon and his team can log each pest control decision and see how it played out—linking every spray or bio-intervention to measurable changes in pest populations.
Together, PATS-C and PATS-Kalendar offer growers a full feedback loop:
➡️ Monitor → 📅 Plan → ✅ Act → ✍️ Log → 📊 Evaluate
This integrated approach empowers growers to improve continuously, reduce chemical inputs, and move confidently toward a more sustainable crop strategy.
So what’s next?
Today, PATS-Kalendar is a powerful manual tool, but we’re already looking ahead. Tomorrow, it could form the foundation for automated pest control suggestions, tailored to your specific crop and situation.
Because at PATS, we believe in helping growers act smarter.
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