Agriculture & Farm Energy Monitoring — Irrigation, Cold Storage, Drying | EC.DATA
Farming & Agricultural Energy Intelligence — Irrigation, Greenhouse & Cold Chain
EC.DATA monitors irrigation pumping energy, greenhouse climate control, cold storage, and renewable generation across farming operations — reducing water and energy costs with data-driven scheduling.
Agricultural Energy Challenges
- Irrigation follows fixed schedules regardless of actual soil moisture and weather conditions
- Pump energy costs are a black box — no visibility into cost per hectare irrigated
- Frost warnings arrive too late to protect crops
- Greenhouse climate control runs continuously regardless of crop growth stage
- Cold storage energy for produce unknown and unmonitored
- Solar and diesel generator energy not correlated with operational costs
EC.DATA Farming Solutions
- Soil moisture and weather station integration for demand-driven irrigation scheduling (EC.IoT — LoRaWAN)
- Irrigation pump energy monitoring with cost per cycle and per zone (EC.EMS)
- EC.Alerts: frost warnings, soil moisture depletion, and tank level alerts
- Greenhouse temperature, humidity, and CO₂ monitoring for climate optimization (EC.IoT)
- Cold storage temperature compliance logging for produce and perishables (EC.IoT — HACCP)
- Solar generation monitoring correlated with pump and irrigation schedules (EC.EMS)
- EC.Bills: utility bill audit for grid-connected farm sites
Farming: matching water and energy to what the crop actually needs
Traditional irrigation scheduling wastes 20–40% of pump energy by running fixed cycles regardless of recent rainfall, evapotranspiration, or actual soil moisture. EC.DATA's agriculture solution connects LoRaWAN soil moisture sensors and weather stations to EC.Node gateways — often solar-powered — and correlates sensor data with pump run-time and energy consumption. Irrigation runs when the soil calls for it, not when the calendar says so. Farms typically see 20–35% reduction in pumping energy and water withdrawal within the first growing season of deployment.