Driving innovation with sensors, automation, and connected systems
Modern agriculture faces immense challenges: growing global demand, increasing climate extremes, limited resources, rising water scarcity, and high cost pressures. At the same time, markets and society are demanding greater transparency, sustainability, and efficiency.
Smart Agriculture – the digitalization of agricultural processes – provides the tools to meet these challenges: sensors, automation, and connected systems help farmers make data-driven decisions. But for these systems to work reliably, stable, energy-efficient, and long-range communication is essential – even in the absence of infrastructure, such as in fields, greenhouses, vineyards, or livestock facilities.
Key challenges in agriculture
- Remote and expansive areas: Devices need to communicate across kilometers – often without network coverage.
- Harsh environmental conditions: Dust, humidity, heat, frost – hardware must be rugged and durable.
- Battery-powered for years: Many sensors are not wired – energy efficiency is crucial.
- Diverse data sources: Soil moisture, temperature, precipitation, light, animal movement, and health parameters – all must be integrated.
- Cost sensitivity: Devices must be economically viable and low-maintenance.
The solution: LPWAN technologies like mioty® & LoRaWAN® – for agricultural solutions with vision
In Smart Agriculture, modern LPWAN technologies truly shine. They enable long-range, energy-efficient communication and can be flexibly scaled and deployed.
mioty® – ETSI-based wireless technology for agriculture
- Extremely robust thanks to Telegram Splitting
- Communication range up to 20 km (line-of-sight)
- Long battery life of up to 20 years
- Highly scalable: up to 1.6 million messages/day per gateway
- Ideal for large-scale farms, irrigation systems, and smart farming platforms
LoRaWAN® – established standard for agricultural connectivity
- Large global community and adoption
- Open ecosystem with many network providers and hardware vendors
- Easy integration into existing systems at low cost
- Operates in license-free sub-GHz band – no recurring frequency fees
- Especially suitable for small-scale and modular solutions
Protocol stacks and software solutions tailored to your own hardware platform
Your benefits
- Platform-independent integration (SoCs, microcontrollers, modules)
- Flexible licensing models: from prototype to mass production
- Future-proof and low-maintenance: ideal for long-term deployment in the field
Typical use cases in agriculture
- Smart irrigation: Automated, data-driven watering based on soil moisture and weather data
- Precision farming: Targeted fertilization, sowing, and harvesting based on environmental and machine data
- Livestock monitoring: Tracking of animal location, activity, and health through sensors
- Environmental monitoring: Real-time collection of localized climate data for informed decision-making
- Smart Greenhouse: Automated control of temperature, humidity, lighting, and CO₂ in closed environments
Agricultural solutions powered by STACKFORCE technology deliver:
- Lower resource consumption (e.g., water, fertilizer, energy)
- Fewer failures and maintenance efforts
- Higher yields at lower operational costs
- Data-based, predictable decision-making
- Long-term reliability, even in weak infrastructure conditions
Conclusion: LPWAN for agriculture – ready for the field with STACKFORCE
Whether in crop farming, livestock management, or viticulture – with STACKFORCE protocol stacks for mioty® and LoRaWAN®, you enable reliable, energy-efficient, and scalable smart farming solutions. Thanks to platform independence, deep expertise, and tailor-made adaptations, you can bring your product to market quickly and reliably – fully prepared for the agriculture of the future.
