About
Built in the sugarbush, by a sugarmaker
Jeff Skarda makes syrup with his brother Andy at Skarda Maple Farms in Denmark, Wisconsin. Every spring meant the same questions: Is the tank about to overflow? Do I need to leave work early? Can I sit down to dinner tonight? As the farm moved to vacuum and releasers, knowing the pump was running and the vacuum was holding became the difference between a good day and a lost one.
In 2019 Jeff put fifteen years of electrical engineering and data systems work into a monitor for his own three remote locations. It worked. The next spring ten producers ran the beta, and Sap Spy was born from what they taught him.
Sap Spy is Maple IoT Solutions LLC, in Menasha, Wisconsin. Jeff still answers the phone. The app, the maps, the calculators and the Sugarhouse Log came the same way the hardware did: from producers asking for them.
- Peace of mind. Know the status of your sugarbush from your phone or any browser.
- More sap per tap. See vacuum over days, get an alert when it drops, and fix the leak the day it happens.
- Know how the sap is running. Tank level over time tells you when the tank will be full and how the day is going.
