Now accepting founding customers — NZ-wide site visits available

Your remote operations, watched over.

Meadar provides intelligent 24/7 monitoring for aquaculture, agriculture, and remote industry across New Zealand and the Pacific. Backed by decades of real industry experience — not just technology.

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Founding Customer Programme

We're working with our first customers to shape the service around real operational needs. If you're in aquaculture or farming and open to a conversation, we'd love to visit your site — at no obligation.

Marlborough Sounds
DO: 8.4 mg/L
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Stewart Is. Salmon
Temp: 12.1°C
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Pen 4 — Rope Load
↑ 94% capacity
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Gate — Ruataniwha
Closed ✓
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New company.
Deep experience.
Meadar is a new business — and we're not pretending otherwise. What we bring is a founding team with decades of hands-on experience in NZ aquaculture and agribusiness, combined with deep expertise in database architecture, business intelligence, and software development. We built Meadar because we understood the problem from the inside. We know what farmers and aquaculture operators actually need — because we've worked alongside them.
Who We Are

Experience you can put to work.

Our team doesn't come from a tech startup. We come from the industries we serve — with the technical capability to build something genuinely useful.

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Aquaculture & Agribusiness

Hands-on operational experience in NZ salmon farming, mussel aquaculture, and large-scale pastoral farming. We understand the pressures, the rhythms, and the things that go wrong at 2am on a Sunday.

Decades of NZ industry experience
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Database & BI Architecture

Enterprise-grade database and business intelligence expertise, built across major banks and agribusiness companies. We know how to turn messy, high-volume sensor data into decisions, not just dashboards.

Large-scale enterprise BI background
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Software Design & Development

We build our own platform. From sensor data ingestion and normalisation through to alerting logic and reporting, the Meadar stack is designed and maintained in-house by people who understand the operational context.

Full-stack development capability
How It Works

Simple to start.
Serious capability.

We're hardware-agnostic — we connect to whatever sensors make sense for your operation, and take it from there. No technical expertise required on your end.

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Site Visit & Assessment

We come to you. Our team visits your operation anywhere in New Zealand to understand your specific environment, risks, and what meaningful monitoring looks like for your situation.

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Sensor Selection & Deployment

We recommend and help deploy the right sensors — weather stations, water quality probes, rope load monitors, gate and IR security sensors, cameras. Solar-powered and connected via cellular, radio, or satellite.

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24/7 Monitored Coverage

Your data flows into the Meadar platform. Our team watches your sites around the clock with alert logic tuned to your specific baselines. You're contacted when it matters — not for every sensor blip.

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Reporting & Analysis

Regular intelligence reports, trend analysis, and seasonal benchmarking turn your accumulated data into genuine operational insight. The longer you're with Meadar, the more valuable your data becomes.

Meadar Operations — Live View
Illustrative
Salmon Farm — Stewart Island, Pen 2
Dissolved oxygen restored to 8.2 mg/L after aeration cycle. Event logged, owner notified.
14 mins ago · Resolved by Meadar Ops
Mussel Farm — Marlborough Sounds, Line 4
Buoy depth indicating elevated rope load. Farm manager contacted. Southerly tracking.
1 hr ago · Under observation
High Country Station — North Gate
Gate opened 06:42, closed 06:51. Pattern consistent with daily stock movement. No action.
3 hrs ago · Normal pattern
Illustrative example — this is what your monitoring feed could look like
Who We Serve

Built for where others don't reach.

From offshore mussel farms to high-country stations, Meadar is designed for operations where having someone on-site permanently isn't practical — or necessary.

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Salmon Aquaculture

Replace costly on-site overnight and weekend monitoring staff without reducing coverage. Water quality, pen integrity, site security, and environmental compliance — continuously watched.

Dissolved Oxygen Sea Temp Site Security Staff Safety
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Mussel & Shellfish Farming

Rope load monitoring, buoy depth sensors, and AI-assisted camera analysis give early warning before a rope becomes a crisis. Harmful algal bloom tracking integrated with NIWA data feeds.

Rope Load HAB Alerts Water Quality Storm Warning
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Pastoral & Arable Farming

Weather stations, soil moisture, gate monitoring, water trough levels, and stock security across your whole property. Know what's happening without needing to be there.

Weather Gate Security Soil Moisture Water Tanks
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Remote Industry

Mining, energy, and infrastructure in remote locations require continuous environmental and equipment monitoring for regulatory compliance, safety, and operational continuity.

Environmental Equipment Health Compliance IR Security
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Marine & Coastal

Tidal, wave, and weather monitoring for port operations, coastal infrastructure, and marine farms. Integrated with MetService and NIWA feeds for comprehensive situational awareness.

Tidal Wave Height Salinity Storm Alerts
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The Pacific Region

Satellite-connected monitoring for operations beyond cellular coverage. Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, and beyond — the same platform, the same team, wherever the data originates.

Satellite Low Power Solar Resilient
Why Meadar

A monitoring bureau, not a hardware vendor.

We don't sell boxes. We provide the confidence that experienced people are watching your operation, and will tell you when something needs your attention.

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We understand your industry

Our team has worked in aquaculture and agribusiness — not just built software for it. That means our alerting logic and reporting reflects operational reality, not just sensor thresholds.

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Context-aware monitoring

A gate open at 2am is not the same as one open at 7am. We tune your monitoring to your patterns so you're called when it matters — not at every sensor event.

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Your data is yours, and it grows in value

Every reading is stored and yours indefinitely. After a season of data, we can start identifying patterns. After several, your history becomes a genuine operational asset.

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Hardware-agnostic

We work with whatever sensors make sense for your environment and budget. We're not locked to a specific brand or technology stack, and neither are you.

For salmon farm operators

The staffing cost argument is direct: if Meadar can replace the overnight and weekend monitoring role of one or two staff members, the ROI is immediate and straightforward. Your remaining team works safer hours, your operation has better coverage, and you have a full audit trail for regulatory and insurance purposes.

For mussel farm operators

Rope load events during weather often happen faster than a physical check allows. Early warning monitoring — combined with NIWA sea state data — means you make decisions with time to act, not after the fact. We're also developing AI-assisted camera monitoring specifically for aquaculture environments.

Starting fresh with us

As a founding customer you'll work directly with our team to shape the service. We'll visit your site, understand your specific needs, and build the monitoring programme around your operation — not a generic template.

We'll come to you — anywhere in New Zealand.

Our team is available for on-site visits throughout NZ. Understanding your operation in person is how we get the monitoring right.

Arrange a Site Visit
Get in Touch

Let's start a conversation.

Whether you're ready to talk specifics or just want to understand what's possible for your operation, we'd love to hear from you.

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Email
We aim to respond within one business day
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Phone
New Zealand — available business hours
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Location
Wellington, New Zealand
Site visits available throughout NZ
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Founding Programme
Now accepting expressions of interest
Early customers help shape the service — and benefit from founding pricing

Or call us directly on +64 210 810 5099