Industry Advisory Committee Annual Report 2012/13 - Apple And Pear Australia Ltd Page 16
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32OHMA operational
support
2012–2015
This is a three-year industry and
across industry funded pay-on-invoice
project to support the activities of
the Office of Horticulture Market
Access (OHMA) Committee to improve
market access and export growth for
Australian horticulture into markets
which are closed or inhibited by
quarantine or tariff barriers.
It supports the operational activities
Bees emptied out of the bait box to retrieve sensor data at the end of a controlled test
of OHMA, including travel of members
to and from meetings, printing of
acts as the remote camera surveillance
meeting papers, fees payable to
platform that autonomously performs image
independent chair, and overseas
capture, analysis and remote notification.
travel related to the OHMA chair
Prototype bait boxes with remote camera
and other committee members as
surveillance and solar power have been
approved by Horticulture Australia
installed in Brisbane and Cairns ports, and
Limited.
have been operating reliably and without
The project commenced in-line
human intervention throughout 2012/13.
with the first OHMA meeting, held
A follow on project is recommended
Canberra on 27 February 2013.
for further refinement and provisional
Two or three more OHMA meeting are
deployment of multiple bait boxes, prior to
expected to occur throughout 2013.
Manipulation of a swarm of bees into a bait box
large-scale deployment of the system.
instrumented with sensors
Project MT12028
Project MT10063
For more information contact:
For more information contact:
Kim James, HAL
Cheryl McCarthy, NCEA
T 08 6488 2209
T 07 4631 2297
E .au
E cheryl.mccarthy@usq.edu.au
NCEA technician, Victor Skowronski and Cabarlah beekeeper, Rodney Ruge with the bait box during a controlled test
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