Creating an optimal barn climate, achieving perfect ventilation in every section, making sure that animals are fed optimally and ensuring that a good water supply is in place: all of the above used to depend on the intuition of the individual livestock farmer. In most cases, this was something that farmers had learned from their fathers or even grandfathers. The approach needed, involved a delicate interplay of observation, weighing the situation up and gut instinct. This meant the farmer had to spend long hours in his barns every day, reacting to changing weather conditions straight away, opening...

Now Thomas® does this for you. Thomas® – the Total Hotraco Online Management & Automation System – is the result of more than 40 years’ experience in the development of automated solutions for the livestock industry. We have now combined this experience and know-how with our existing experience in the pig sector to develop a completely new system of control computers and ventilation solutions: aimed specifically at the demanding pig sector. We are proud to say that each and every computer and ventilation system has been developed with the needs of market in mind and based on feedback from pig...

Thomas® offers the user perfect control and optimum ease of use Thomas® helps businesses in the pig sector to achieve better profits from their business operations. This starts with creating and maintaining a perfect barn climate and reducing energy costs, achieving optimal barn ventilation and ensuring improved animal welfare, which reduces disease and veterinary fees. However, Thomas® doesn't stop there. It also makes sure that all relevant management data is clear and that all linked systems can be controlled from the livestock farmer's PC, tablet or smartphone. This gives farmers instant...

The automated climate, ventilation and Feeding processes in your barn are a valuable source oF information on your pigs' living environment, individual behaviour and on their feed and water intake. The Thomas® computers can be connected in a network. This makes it possible to exchange all relevant compartment data and optimise central controls like central ventilation and the heating system. This management information can be used to adopt an improvement-driven approach based on up-to-date facts and figures, and react immediately and effectively to any acute changes. Although your gut feeling...

Thomas® creates overview and delivers peace of mind. Anywhere, any time You can use the Thomas® management program to generate logs and charts of any of a number of parameters - such as temperature, ventilation and feed consumption - putting you in a position to adjust and control technical results even better than before. The Thomas® management software keeps you up-to-date on conditions in your barn wherever you and enables you to act immediately if necessary: from a PC or even from your tablet or smartphone. The ThomApp® puts you in complete control of every process anywhere and at any time....

The Thomas® system is installed by a selected dealer network, because of which we are able to offer all of our customers the very best level of support , regardless of where they are geographically. This is important to customers, because a climate or feeding system is a major investment that they need to recoup as soon as possible. With this in mind, we focus on long-term partnerships with our customers, so that we can work with you to improve your business operations. These partnerships might just involve identifying the ideal solution for your operation or extend to help with installation....

Thomas® Management The Thomas® management program can be used to achieve a direct connection via PC, tablet or the app and all the computers in the network can be operated in full. Armed with the Thomas® program, you will also be able to retrieve and edit all of the data that you would otherwise be able to retrieve and edit on the barn computer: from any PC with an internet connection. The data generated per control is displayed in easy-to-read charts, because of which you can see all of the settings relating to a control in just one glance.

ThomApp® The ThomApp® enables operating the Thomas® barn computers remotely via your smartphone. All you need is the software and an internet connection! You will discover the Thomas® interface enables you to log on to the computers in your operational setup without a PC having to be switched on and, as such, control your entire setup remotely. The app is very simple to use and easy to understand, because the keys and screens used are exactly the same as those that you are used to seeing on your computer.

The barn climate. Crucial to good results. The right barn climate is crucial. It benefits the growth and health of your animals – your capital – and helps you reduce feed, water, energy and veterinary costs too. We don’t need to tell you how important that is. It takes skill to achieve the ideal barn climate regardless of the conditions outside. With a good climate control system in place, extreme weather conditions and harsh fluctuations in temperatures during the day and at night will have virtually no impact on your barn’s climate. Our Thomas® climate computers regulate the barn temperature...

In the modern pig sector, the collection and recording oF key indicators is essential For the optimisation oF production. This makes it possible to quickly recognise and analyse negative influences and avoid them in the future. You don't want warm air to be extracted unnecessarily, as this increases heating costs. The impact oF strong winds on air inlets or exhaust chimneys must be corrected automatically, so that stable minimum ventilation is guaranteed at all times. It is important to have a constant FIow oF air without any draught and the right quality For people and animals. We take care...