Farm monitoring you can set up yourself.

Keep an eye on temperatures, tank levels, irrigation, pump status, pressures and soil moisture right from your phone. The units run on cellular, and the app makes them easy to set up.

We’re still building North Valley Telemetry. Prototype units are out in the field, the dashboard is live, and we’re bringing on a small group of early users.

Replay · 24 h in 20 s

Water Pressure

Well House · sample data

47PSI

Pump running

A sample day, sped up.

The problem

The hardware got cheap. The install never did.

More farms are moving to cellular monitoring, and it’s getting easier. But most systems are still expensive, and every site ends up as a custom job that needs a specialist to design and install it. Add a second site with a different sensor and you’re back on the phone with the installer.

We’re building something simpler: affordable units you can install yourself, and an app that makes setup easy.

How it's different

One unit for every site, one app for all of them.

What changes from site to site is just the settings.

You don’t have to buy our sensors. If a sensor puts out a standard signal, you can wire it in, then tell the app what it’s measuring and which units to show. A pressure sensor on a well and an ultrasonic sensor over a canal run on the same unit, just set up differently.

We’re also working on outputs, so the same unit will be able to turn a pump on or open a valve, not just watch it.

Units talk over cellular, so there’s no base station to put up and no line of sight to worry about. They run on a battery that a small solar panel can keep charged, so you don’t have to trench in power.

Works with

Sensors
Pressure, level, temperature and most other standard industrial sensors
Switches
Float switches, pump running signals and fault signals
Outputs
We’re working on turning pumps, valves and other equipment on and off
A long, narrow green circuit board seen from above at an angle: a row of green screw terminals along the front edge, with a processor module, a cellular modem and a SIM holder behind them.
The prototype unit we’re testing now: a cellular modem, solar or DC power, and screw terminals for your sensor wires. The production version is still in the works.

How it works

Three steps, and you can do every one yourself.

  1. 01

    Mount and wire.

    Bolt the box up and run a few wires to the sensor. No panel work, no base station, no network to set up.

  2. 02

    Power it on.

    Scan the code on the unit, or type it into the app, and it finishes connecting on its own. No laptop or cables needed.

  3. 03

    Set up your sensors.

    Name the site, pick the sensor and its units, and set your limits. Alerts come to your phone.

In the dashboard

The same app in the pickup or at the desk.

The dashboard on a phone: two sensors needing attention (a low fuel tank and dry soil), a well's pressure over the last day between 40 and 60 PSI, sitting quiet overnight, holding steady through an early-morning irrigation set and cycling with the day's water use, a bar marking each time its pump ran, and temperature and humidity below.
The dashboard, shown with sample sites. Readings come in as often as you choose.
Add a device, step one of four: scan a QR code, or enter the code printed on the device label. A note explains the device ships unclaimed and finishes setup on its own once powered on.

Adding a unit

Scan the code on the unit or type it in. It finishes setting itself up the first time it powers on.

Water pressure detail: the latest reading in PSI, a time range picker set to six hours, and a trend line showing the tank draining slowly and the pump refilling it, with the low, high and reading count below.

One sensor, in detail

Each sensor keeps its own history. Drag across the graph to see the reading at any point in time.

Sensor settings for soil moisture: an alert rule reading “the reading goes below 20 %”, and a choice of how the sensor looks on the dashboard — a level bar, bars, a trend line or the number alone.

Your own alert limits

Set a limit for each sensor and choose the units it shows. Alerts come to your phone.

What it watches

What it watches, and what we’re working on.

  • Wells and pumps

    Pressure, whether the pump is running, faults

  • Tanks and canals

    Water level, by pressure or ultrasonic sensor

  • Pump and relay control

    Working on it

    Turn equipment on and off from your phone

  • Soil moisture

    Working on it

    Probes, zone by zone

  • Equipment tracking

    Working on it

    Where your equipment is and how much it gets used

  • Your own sensors

    Anything with a standard signal, set up by you

If it puts out a signal we can read, adding it is a settings change, not a custom job.

Pricing

Where pricing is headed.

We haven’t set prices yet. We’d rather work them out with our first users than guess. Here’s what we’re aiming for:

  • Hardware that costs less than a day of paying someone to install it
  • One flat monthly price per unit, with no charge per sensor and no charge per reading
  • No long-term contract. Pay month to month, and put it on hold in your off season

If those numbers matter for your operation, tell us what you’d want to keep an eye on and we’ll talk specifics.

Early access

Request early access.

Tell us what you’d want to keep an eye on first. We’re starting with a small group, and we can help soonest when we already support the sensor you need.

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