Agriculture
Smart Farming
Sensors monitor soil health, moisture, CO₂ and crop condition. Drones map fields and spray. AI agents plan irrigation, adjust fertilizer, predict yield and optimize harvest windows — across fields that often have no reliable connectivity at all.
Fields don't have data centers nearby
Precision agriculture depends on continuous soil and crop sensing across large areas that are, almost by definition, far from reliable connectivity — cellular coverage is patchy at best in open farmland, and a sensor network that stops reporting the moment coverage drops defeats the purpose of continuous monitoring.
Relay's offline-first operation means a field-edge node keeps collecting, aggregating and making local irrigation and application decisions through a connectivity gap, syncing the full history once a link — cellular, satellite or a return trip to a farm office with WiFi — becomes available again. MQTT-SN support fits the battery-constrained sensors typically deployed across a field at scale.
What's included
- →Offline-first operation: field-edge nodes keep working, and keep deciding, without a live connection.
- →MQTT-SN for constrained sensors: battery-powered soil and crop sensors connect without a full network stack.
- →Drone integration: mapping and spraying drones report over the same platform as fixed field sensors.
See it against your own architecture
Every protocol and transport on this page is available on the Free plan. Run it on your own hardware before you talk to anyone.