Two divisions.
One engineer.
Control and monitoring systems designed, built and supported by a time-served controls engineer. Choose the side that fits your site.
Industrial
Factories, process plant, machine builders and facilities. PLC and HMI work, control panels, breakdown cover and condition monitoring.
Agriculture
Farms and rural businesses. Remote sensor monitoring, CCTV and security, and control panel work — all on 4G, no broadband needed.
Know what's happening on your farm — right now.
Catch the problem before it costs you — a power cut, a leaking tank, a gate left open. We watch your farm around the clock and message you the moment something changes, so small issues don't become expensive ones. All on 4G, no broadband needed.
Alerts sent straight to your phone the moment something changes — day or night, wherever you are.
Every system runs on its own dedicated SIM. No reliance on farm WiFi or unreliable rural broadband.
We visit your farm, understand your setup, and tell you exactly what we'd recommend. No obligation.
Three reasons farmers choose us
Save Money
A power cut overnight can mean a freezer full of spoiled produce by morning. A leaking trough can run for hours before anyone notices. A failed generator during lambing season could cost thousands. Catching it the moment it happens — not the next morning — is the difference between a five-minute fix and a five-figure loss.
Peace of Mind
No more driving out at 11pm because you're "pretty sure" you shut the gate. No more lying awake wondering if the grain store's overheating. Your phone tells you the moment something needs attention — and tells you when everything's fine, too.
Save Time
Stop walking the same rounds every day just to check nothing's changed. Free up an hour a day — or send someone to do the jobs that actually need doing, instead of routine checks.
The alert finds you.
In seconds.
Every alert lands as a direct message — free, instant, and on the phone already in your pocket. No portals to log into, no inbox to dig through. When something changes on your farm, your phone buzzes.
From the sensor tripping to your phone buzzing. Not the next morning — now.
Alerts go to a shared group — family, staff, whoever needs to know. Everyone sees it at the same moment.
It's free and runs on any smartphone. No per-message fees, no extra subscriptions, no special hardware.
Controls engineering meets agriculture.
We understand farming, agricultural equipment, and the control and automation systems behind them. We also work with industrial and commercial clients who need the same level of engineering expertise. That means we design solutions that actually work in your environment — not systems bodged together from domestic kit.
With a background in controls engineering and almost a decade working with industrial automation systems, we bring a level of technical understanding that most installers simply don't have. That's your advantage.
Trade-qualified controls engineer · BEng Control & Automation · Fully insured
Formal qualifications in industrial automation, PLC systems, and electrical control panels — backed by a degree in control systems engineering. Public liability and professional indemnity insured. Full details →
Our Services
From a single temperature sensor in your grain store to a full CCTV and monitoring system across your entire farm — survey, installation, and ongoing support, all from one engineer.
Remote Monitoring
Wireless sensors across your site feeding a live dashboard we build and run ourselves. Instant alerts for temperature, power failures, gate access, water levels and more — straight to your phone, day or night.
Explore Monitoring →CCTV & Security
Full camera systems with remote viewing from your phone. Motion alerts, night vision, and weatherproof equipment built for rural environments.
Learn more →Control Panel Work
Fault finding, upgrades, and retrofits on agricultural and industrial control systems. We understand the engineering behind your equipment — not just the wiring.
Learn more →Ongoing Support
Monthly monitoring packages, scheduled site visits, and direct engineer support when you need it. One contact for everything — no call centres.
Get in touch →How It Works
We visit your farm and identify exactly what needs monitoring or securing.
Fixed price — no surprises, no hidden costs.
Sensors, cameras and 4G gateway fitted and fully tested.
Dashboard and instant alerts on your phone the same day.
Ongoing monthly support and monitoring from us.
Ready to know what's happening
on your farm right now?
Know what's happening
before it becomes a problem.
Wireless sensors. A live dashboard built and run by us. Instant direct message alerts. All on 4G — no broadband, no WiFi, no complicated setup.
Simple on your end.
Smart on ours.
You don't need to understand the technology. Here's all that matters: sensors go on your farm, alerts come to your phone. And here's how it works under the hood:
This is what you'll see
from anywhere.
This isn't a mock-up. It's our own monitoring platform — designed, built and run by JG Smart Systems. Your dashboard is custom-built for your farm, updating in real time, accessible from any device.
What we can monitor
Environment
Power & Water
Security & Access
Livestock
Equipment
Connectivity
Simple, scalable pricing
Installation and hardware are quoted separately as a one-off cost — tailored to your site during your free review. The monthly fee covers your ongoing monitoring and alerts. Support packages are available separately.
Everything to get live
Your first sensor live and monitored — including the 4G gateway, our dashboard platform, and instant direct message alerts.
Includes one sensor. Additional sensors £5/month each. Installation quoted separately.
Get A Quote →Additional Sensors
Add as many sensors as your site needs. Each one gets its own widget on your dashboard, its own alert thresholds, and its own data history.
We'll recommend exactly what you need during your free site review.
Book A Site Review →Typical Arable Farm
Base system with grain store temperature, shed humidity, mains power monitoring, a gate sensor, and a diesel tank level sensor — five sensors total, all feeding one live dashboard with instant alerts.
Book a free demo on your farm.
We'll bring the equipment.
Our Services
From a single temperature sensor in your grain store to a full CCTV and monitoring system across your entire farm. We handle everything from survey to installation to ongoing support.
Remote Monitoring
Wireless sensors placed around your farm feed live data to a dashboard we build and run ourselves — viewable from anywhere. No wiring. No broadband. The sensors run on batteries that last years, and the whole system works via its own 4G connection.
When something changes — a temperature spike, a power failure, a gate left open — an alert lands on your phone within 30 seconds. Not the next morning. Now.
CCTV & Security
Full camera systems with remote viewing from your phone. We use professional-grade Hikvision equipment — not the cheap domestic kit sold online. That means reliable night vision, proper weatherproofing, and remote access that actually works on rural 4G connections.
Control Panel Work
Fault finding, upgrades, and retrofits on agricultural and industrial control systems. Grain dryers, irrigation pumps, ventilation controllers, conveyor systems, process lines — if it has a control panel, we can work on it.
Most local electricians won't touch PLC faults or industrial control panels. We can. Whether it's on a farm or in a factory, that's what makes us different.
Ongoing Support & Maintenance
We don't disappear after installation. Support packages are available to suit your needs — from remote health checks to scheduled site visits. One number, one contact, no call centres.
Not sure what you need?
Start with a free site review.
Controls engineering expertise.
Built for industry.
JG Smart Systems was built for farms and rural businesses — but our controls engineering background means we're equally at home with industrial automation, process control, and commercial systems.
Why we started
Farms are complicated environments. They have specialist electrical systems, control panels that most electricians won't touch, remote buildings with no broadband, and real consequences when things go wrong — financially and for animal welfare.
Yet most monitoring and CCTV companies treat a farm like any other commercial site. They fit a standard package, don't understand the control systems, can't deal with the connectivity challenges, and disappear once the invoice is paid.
The same gap exists in industrial settings — businesses with ageing control panels, unreliable monitoring, and no one local who understands both the electrical and the automation side.
JG Smart Systems was set up to fill that gap. Based in Shropshire, we work primarily with farms and rural businesses, but our controls engineering background means we're equally capable with industrial automation, process control, and commercial systems. We bring a level of technical depth that generic installers simply can't match.
Engineering you can verify
Trade Qualified
Formal trade qualifications in controls engineering, covering industrial automation, PLC systems, and electrical control panels.
BEng Control & Automation
Degree-level education in control systems, automation engineering, and industrial technology — academic rigour applied to practical problems across agriculture and industry.
Fully Insured
Public liability and professional indemnity cover for all works carried out on client sites. Certificates available on request.
What makes us different
We actually understand farms
We know the difference between a grain dryer controller and a basic relay panel. We understand what matters — and what doesn't — in a farm environment.
No broadband? No problem.
Every system we install works on its own 4G connection. Farm broadband is unreliable. Ours isn't.
One person, one number
When you call, you speak to Jamie. Not a call centre. Not a booking system. The person who installed your system.
Fixed prices, no surprises
Every quote is fixed price. We don't bill by the hour for installation work. You know exactly what you're paying before we start.
Controls engineering background
Most CCTV installers can't fault-find a PLC. Most electricians won't touch a grain dryer controller. We can do both — and connect it all to your phone.
Local to Shropshire
We're based in Shropshire and work across the surrounding counties. Fast response, no travel premium, familiar with the local farming community.
A free site review costs you nothing.
Book one today.
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farm review
Tell us a bit about your farm and what you'd like to keep an eye on. We'll visit the site, understand the setup, and give you a clear recommendation — no obligation, no sales pressure.
Including Herefordshire, Staffordshire, Cheshire, Powys, and Worcestershire.
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Downtime doesn't wait for the OEM.
Controls engineering for firms that don't have a controls engineer. Someone who can go into the PLC, read the logic and find the actual fault — plus panels designed and built, and condition monitoring that flags a machine before it stops. Design, build, code, commission: one engineer, the whole job.
New code, modifications, relay-to-PLC modernisation, HMI and SCADA screens, safety circuits.
Eplan schematics, panel design, build and wiring, labelling and full handover documentation.
Component-level fault finding on machines, drives, panels and instrumentation.
Wireless sensors on plant you can't easily cable — temperature, vibration, power, run hours, levels.
Aerospace, automotive, security screening and general manufacturing — from component-level fault finding to full system design and commissioning.
Siemens TIA Portal (certified S7 programmer, levels 1–3 and SCL), Allen Bradley / Rockwell RSLogix 5000, and Mitsubishi.
We come to the plant, look at what you've got, and tell you what we'd do about it. No charge, no obligation.
Three reasons firms call us
Downtime is the real cost
The contactor is never the expensive part. The expensive part is the shift you lost while somebody worked out which contactor it was. An engineer who can go into the PLC, read the logic and follow the fault back to its source gets the line running in a fraction of the time it takes to swap parts and hope.
Most electricians stop at the panel door
Plenty of firms will change a motor or run a new supply. Far fewer will open the PLC, interrogate a drive fault, trace a safety circuit or fix a network problem between a controller and a remote I/O rack. That gap is where machines sit idle waiting for the OEM to call back — and it's the gap we fill.
You own everything we build
Commented source code, backups, schematics, I/O lists and an operations handover — all handed to you at the end of the job. No locked programs, no encrypted blocks, no being held to ransom for a change you could make yourself. If you want another engineer to pick it up next year, they can.
Sectors we cover
Four kinds of customer, one skill set. Whether you have no controls engineer at all or already have a team that's simply out of hours, the work is the same.
SME Manufacturers
Small and mid-size factories with no controls engineer on the payroll — food and drink, plastics, timber, print, general manufacturing. We become the person you ring when the machine does something the manual doesn't cover.
Machine Builders & OEMs
Subcontract controls work — panel builds to your specification, PLC and HMI code, Eplan drawings, FAT support and commissioning cover when your own team is already committed elsewhere.
Plant & Facilities
Industrial kit that isn't in a factory — pumping stations, effluent and water treatment, HVAC plant, compressor houses and building services. Ageing panels, obscure controllers, and nobody local who understands them.
Contract & Project Cover
Larger sites that need an extra pair of hands — shutdowns, installation projects, commissioning phases and holiday cover. Day-rate or project-priced, working alongside your existing engineering team.
Design, build, code, commission.
One engineer through the whole job — the person who drew the schematic is the person who writes the code, wires the panel, commissions it on site and answers the phone afterwards. Nothing gets lost in a hand-off, because there isn't one.
PLC & HMI Work
New programs, modifications to existing ones, relay logic converted to PLC, HMI and SCADA screens, and machines brought back from obsolete controllers onto something you can still buy spares for.
Learn more →Control Panel Design & Build
From a single-motor starter panel to a full process control cabinet. Eplan Electric P8 schematics, component selection, build, wiring, test and complete documentation.
Learn more →Breakdown & Fault Finding
Component-level diagnosis on machines, drives, panels, sensors and instrumentation — including the faults the OEM says need a factory engineer. Root cause found and written up, not just parts changed.
Learn more →Condition Monitoring
Battery-powered wireless sensors on the plant you could never justify cabling — bearing temperature, vibration, power draw, run hours, tank levels — with alerts to your phone before it becomes a stoppage.
Learn more →How It Works
We come to the plant, look at the equipment and understand what you actually need. Free, no obligation.
A written scope and a fixed-price quotation, so you know what you're buying before anything starts.
Schematics, panel build and code written and tested off site wherever possible, to keep your downtime short.
Installed, commissioned and proven on your plant — planned around your production where we can.
Drawings, code, backups and operator walkthrough handed over. Support afterwards from the same engineer.
Controls engineering without the consultancy overhead.
Twenty years spent inside real production environments — aerospace avionics, premium automotive manufacturing, security screening systems and general industry. Not a sales office with a subcontractor list. The engineer who quotes the job is the engineer who does it.
That means honest scoping, no layers of margin, and a straight answer when the right advice is to repair what you have rather than replace it. Sometimes the cheapest job is the one we talk you out of.
Siemens TIA Portal levels 1–3 and SCL, plus Allen Bradley RSLogix 5000 and Mitsubishi platforms.
HNC in Instrumentation & Controls Engineering and a degree in control and automation engineering.
Electrical installation work carried out and certified to current wiring regulations.
Public liability and professional indemnity cover. Certificates available on request before we attend site.
Tell us what's giving you
trouble on the plant.
Industrial Services
From a single afternoon fault-finding on a machine that keeps tripping, through to a new control panel designed, built, programmed and commissioned from scratch. Every job quoted after a site visit — nothing priced off a page.
PLC & HMI Programming
New programs written from scratch, changes to code somebody else wrote, and machines dragged out of obsolescence onto a platform you can still buy parts for. We work in Siemens TIA Portal — certified S7, levels 1 to 3 including SCL — as well as Allen Bradley RSLogix 5000 and Mitsubishi.
Where a machine still runs on relay logic or a controller nobody supports, we'll map what it currently does, agree what it should do, and rebuild it properly — with the sequence documented so the next person doesn't have to guess.
Control Panel Design & Build
Panels designed in Eplan Electric P8, built, wired, tested and labelled properly — from a single motor starter to a full process control cabinet with PLC, drives and remote I/O. Component selection is made on availability and support, not on whatever was cheapest that week.
Every panel leaves with a full drawing set, an I/O schedule and a parts list, so in five years' time your maintenance team can find a spare without stripping the cabinet to identify it.
Breakdown & Fault Finding
The intermittent fault nobody can pin down. The drive that trips once a shift. The machine the OEM says needs a factory engineer flown in. Component-level fault finding across control panels, drives, instrumentation, sensors and networks — including going into the PLC to see what the logic is actually doing.
You get a written explanation of what was wrong and why, not just an invoice for a replaced part. Where a fault points at a design weakness, we'll tell you how to stop it happening again.
Condition Monitoring
Battery-powered wireless sensors fitted to the plant you could never justify cabling — a bearing at the top of a conveyor, a tank in the far corner of the yard, a compressor in an outbuilding. They report back to a dashboard we build and run, and message you the moment a reading moves outside the range you set.
It is the cheap version of predictive maintenance: not a full vibration analysis programme, just enough visibility to know a machine is heading for trouble before it takes your line with it. Sensors are added one at a time as you find them useful.
How we quote it
We don't publish prices for controls work, because nobody can price a machine they haven't seen. The assessment visit is free and carries no obligation.
You get a scope of works alongside the price, so it's clear what is and isn't included — and what happens if we find something unexpected once the panel is open.
Design, build and installation work is fixed price. Fault finding and call-out work, where the scope genuinely can't be known up front, is quoted on a day or half-day basis and agreed before we attend.
Drawings, code, backups and handover notes are part of the job, not a line item you get charged for later.
Not sure which of those
you need? Start with a visit.
Twenty years
on the plant floor.
JG Smart Systems Ltd is a Shropshire-based controls engineering business. The industrial division exists because the same problem keeps turning up: good equipment sitting idle, and nobody local who can go past the panel door.
Where this came from
Two decades of it. Avionics on fast jets in the RAF, field service on X-ray and linear accelerator systems, technical support on high-speed checkweighing lines, maintenance electrician work in volume automotive, and controls engineering in premium automotive manufacturing. All of it in places where a stopped machine costs real money by the minute.
What that teaches you is not one platform or one product. It's how to walk up to an unfamiliar machine, work out what it is trying to do, find out why it isn't doing it, and put it right without breaking three other things on the way.
The gap is easy to see once you've worked both sides of it. Small and mid-size firms run genuinely capable equipment, but have no controls engineer of their own. When something goes beyond a changed motor or a new supply, the options are an OEM engineer at a fortnight's notice, or a general electrician doing their best with a machine they've never seen.
JG Smart Systems was set up to sit in that gap. Deep enough to open the code, local enough to turn up, and small enough that you always speak to the engineer rather than an account manager.
Engineering you can verify
Certified S7 Programmer
Siemens TIA Portal certification, levels 1 to 3 including SCL, alongside working experience on Allen Bradley RSLogix 5000, Mitsubishi and ABB safety PLC platforms.
HNC & Degree
HNC in Instrumentation and Controls Engineering, plus a degree in control and automation engineering — academic grounding behind the practical work.
18th Edition BS 7671
Electrical installation work carried out and certified to current wiring regulations, with panel work documented to match.
Fully Insured
Public liability and professional indemnity cover for all works carried out on client sites. Certificates available on request.
What makes us different
We open the code
Fault finding that stops at the wiring diagram finds the easy faults. We go into the PLC, read the logic, watch the I/O and follow the fault to where it actually starts.
Real production experience
Aerospace, automotive, medical and security screening, high-speed packaging. Environments where downtime is measured in money and nobody accepts “it's just doing that” as an answer.
You get the source and the drawings
Commented code, backups, schematics and I/O lists handed over as part of the job. Nothing locked, nothing encrypted, no dependency on us to make a change.
One person, one number
The engineer who quotes it designs it, builds it, commissions it and answers the phone afterwards. No account managers, no call centre, no hand-offs.
Fixed prices on defined work
Design, build and installation work is fixed price against a written scope. You know the number before we start, and it doesn't move because the job took longer than we hoped.
Midlands & North West
Based in Shropshire and working across the Midlands and North West, with project and panel work undertaken further afield by arrangement.
An assessment visit costs
you nothing. Book one.
Book your free
site assessment
Tell us what the machine is, what it's doing, and what you'd like it to do instead. We'll come and look at it, and give you a straight answer on what's involved — no obligation, no sales pressure.
Photographs of the panel, the nameplate or the fault screen are always welcome.
Based in Shropshire. Panel, design and project work undertaken further afield by arrangement.
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