Yes, that's the situation LoRaWAN was designed for. Sensors run for years on batteries and don't need any signal except the gateway's radio, which reaches 10 km or more in open terrain. Only the gateway needs power and an internet connection, and it can run on solar with a single cellular or satellite link. A peer-reviewed trial in rural Mozambique ran exactly this setup where no telecom infrastructure existed.

Typically one gateway plus a handful of soil moisture probes on your most valuable or thirstiest plot, and alerts to your phone. That's enough to prove the value on your own land in one season. If the numbers work, you add sensors. The gateway you already have will handle hundreds of them.

Honestly: it depends. The 20 to 35% figures come from published studies, and they're real, but your savings depend on how much you currently over-water, your crop, and your soil. If you already irrigate carefully, the gain is smaller. That's why our proposals state what we'd measure, so you can judge the system on your own numbers, not someone else's.

Four steps, no mystery. We walk the land with you and find where water, crops, or money are being lost, free and with no obligation. You get a plain-language proposal: which sensors go where, what it costs, what it should save, and what we'd measure to prove it. We install the gateway and sensors and test coverage across your land. Then we train you and your workers, hand over plain documentation, and stay reachable.

The dashboard flags any sensor that stops reporting, and battery levels are part of every reading, so replacements are planned, not surprises. Batteries last 5 to 10 years depending on how often the sensor reports. Swapping a sensor is a ten-minute job we can do on a support visit, or show your team how to do themselves.

The urgent things arrive as ordinary SMS or WhatsApp messages, like "Plot 3 soil is dry" or "Cold room above 8°C", so nobody has to open an app to act. The dashboard with charts and history is there when you want to look deeper, and we train whoever will use it during handover.

You choose: run it yourself with the documentation and training we provide, or keep us on a light support arrangement for changes, new sensors, and updates. There are no long contracts either way. Support is month to month. You own the hardware and the data.