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Agriculture: soil probes at root depth and an agromet station, the irrigation front moving through the field.

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Soil, water and weather, field by field.

Farm weather stations, irrigation, frost protection, livestock and parametric-insurance networks.

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Scenarios
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Templates
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Agriculture: on the ground

  1. Agriculture

    Soil, water and weather, field by field.

    Farm weather stations, irrigation, frost protection, livestock and parametric-insurance networks.

  2. Farm

    Farm

    Fields, four soil probes, one gateway and a weather station.

  3. Farm

    LoRaWAN gateway

    One gateway on a mast covers the holding. One gateway on an 18 m mast covers the holding; probes send a few bytes an hour for years on a battery.

  4. Farm

    Soil moisture probe

    Probes report moisture at depth for irrigation scheduling. Moisture and temperature at several depths for irrigation scheduling.

  5. Farm

    Farm

    A solar microgrid powers the site. Solar and storage power the gateway and the edge where the grid does not reach.

  6. Proof

    What buyers ask to see.

    • Agronomic model validation
    • Sensor accuracy specification
    • Battery life
    • A local-language app
    • Data-ownership terms

01How it works

A station joins, then the work is shared.

One station runs the protocol from first contact to publishing; the graph beside it shows how this sector’s use cases share kit and products.

02Deployment scenarios

How the grid is deployed here.

From the sector research, each with the observatory template that serves it where one exists.

Protocol & Grid, Sensors & instruments

Farm or cooperative agromet network with crop models

Compact stations and soil probes feeding irrigation, disease and frost models.Protocol & Grid, Sensors & instruments

Smallholder and parametric-insurance station networks

Station density and tamper evidence for index insurance.

03Proof

What buyers ask to see.

The evidence a procurement in this sector asks for, from the sector research. Each item is produced by the grid as a record, not written up afterwards.

  • Agronomic model validation
  • Sensor accuracy specification
  • Battery life
  • A local-language app
  • Data-ownership terms

04Participation

Where communities can host the grid.

Community

Join the community

One account for every community, platform and the NXS Observatory app.Open data

Use the open networks

Public observing networks on their own terms, ready to reuse.Hosting

Host a station

Tell us about a site; we bring the survey, the design and the crew.

05Lines

The lines that serve it.

The enterprise lines that carry the scenarios above, ranked by how many name their work.

Platform

Protocol & Grid

Your grid, on the open protocol.Platform

Sensors & instruments

Measurements that carry their own proof.Platform

Edge compute & AI

Inference beside the instrument.Platform

Field services

Survey to decommission, one accountable crew.

06Search terms and open work

How the sector names the problem.

The terms buyers and programmes use, and open projects in the space, named as factual references only. Naming a project is not an endorsement or a relationship.

Search terms farm weather station frost alert irrigation scheduling sensor soil moisture probe LoRaWAN agromet network crop disease model

Open projects, for reference

  • WeeWX
  • 3D-PAWS
  • farmOS
  • Open Weather Station community

07Other sectors

Every sector, one grid.

Scenarios · 5

Government and public safety

Warning starts with a measurement.Scenarios · 4

Cities

The street, measured block by block.Scenarios · 5

Communities and rural

Connectivity and sensing, locally owned.Scenarios · 5

Industrial

Sites, ground and air, on one record.Scenarios · 4

Sports and events

A temporary grid for a crowd.Scenarios · 4

Development and humanitarian

Data gaps close before the crisis.Scenarios · 6

Scientific

Instruments that outlast the grant.Scenarios · 5

Environment and climate

Ecosystems, observed without a gap.Scenarios · 4

Energy

Assets, grids and weather, joined.Scenarios · 4

Transport

Corridors that report their own state.Scenarios · 4

Defence-adjacent (civil dual-use)

Civil sensing only. Nothing else.Scenarios · 3

Education

Learning to observe, on a real grid.

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Survey, design, deployment and operation for agriculture. The form names who receives your details.

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Soil, water and weather, field by field.

Farm weather stations, irrigation, frost protection, livestock and parametric-insurance networks.

01How it works

From the instrument to the product.

The data path of each use case, tier by tier with the interface on every link, the equipment the use cases share, and one station joining the grid.

02Deployment scenarios

03Proof

What buyers ask to see.

The evidence a procurement in this sector asks for, from the sector research. Each item is produced by the grid as a record, not written up afterwards.

    04Participation

    Where communities can host the grid.

    Community

    Join the community

    One account for every community, platform and the NXS Observatory app.

    Open data

    Use the open networks

    Public observing networks on their own terms, ready to reuse.

    Hosting

    Host a station

    Tell us about a site; we bring the survey, the design and the crew.

    05Lines

    The lines that serve it.

    06Search terms and open work

    How the sector names the problem.

    The terms buyers and programmes use, and open projects in the space, named as factual references only. Naming a project is not an endorsement or a relationship.

    Search terms
    Open projects, for reference
      07Other sectors

      Every sector, one grid.

      Bring us the site.

      Talk to us