Solutions — Smart Farming
Agricultural sites fail on two things: distance and power. The sensor is three kilometres from the nearest road, and the only supply is a solar panel. We supply the router that runs on that supply, the bridge that covers that distance, and the module you can design into your own equipment.
Cellular may reach the farmhouse and not the far block. Something has to carry data the last few kilometres.
Soil probes, climate stations and meters are RS-485 or RS-232. Transparent serial transmission avoids rewriting the device.
Low consumption and a wide DC input range matter more here than throughput. A device that browns out at dawn is useless.
Greenhouses are wet; fields freeze and bake. Enclosure rating and temperature grade decide service life.
The standard answer for greenhouse and metering work: reads the serial device, carries it over 4G to your platform, and keeps running on a solar supply.
Where the field is out of cellular range but a farmhouse or shed has a connection, a bridge pair carries the link. Priced per unit and deployed in pairs.
If you build the sensor or the controller, putting the modem on your own board removes a box, a cable and a power supply from the bill of materials.
Out-of-season growing depends on temperature, humidity, light and CO₂ being held in a narrow band. Staff cannot watch every house, so the readings have to arrive in real time with alarms attached.
Used: a 4G industrial router per house — network connection plus transparent serial data from the climate controller.
Hilltop observation points see the forest but have no network. Getting video off the hill is the whole project.
Used: 5.8 GHz wireless bridges providing the link layer — high throughput, low latency, simple to configure.
Manual meter reading is slow and error-prone, and the number of endpoints keeps growing. Automated reads are more accurate and let the operator optimise usage.
Used: a cellular router doing serial data collection and forwarding, with accuracy better than manual reading.
Digitalising field operations means many small data points from many locations, all needing a cheap, reliable path to a database.
Used: 4G routers for data forwarding — high rate, low latency, simple setup, low per-site cost.
Distance and power are the two things that decide an agricultural design. Give us both and we will recommend either cellular, a bridge, or a module inside your own device.