Weather intelligence for agriculture
Crop decisions depend on what's happening metres above and below your soil â not at an airport 20 km away. LoEco puts hyperlocal weather intelligence directly in the hands of the grower.
Effective irrigation and drainage decisions require knowing two things simultaneously: how much rain has fallen, and how much water the soil is actually holding at root depth. Neither figure is reliable from a regional station kilometres away.
MeteoA deploys tipping-bucket or weighing rain gauges directly on your land, paired with capacitance or tensiometer soil moisture probes at one or more depths. Together they give a complete water-balance picture â updated every 10 minutes and visible in your LoEco dashboard.
Over-irrigation wastes water, suppresses oxygen in the root zone, and leaches nutrients. Under-irrigation cuts yield and quality. With field-level data, you irrigate on evidence rather than estimation.
Evapotranspiration (ET) is the combined water loss from soil evaporation and plant transpiration â the single most important number for precise irrigation scheduling. It cannot be measured directly in the field; it must be calculated from multiple weather variables.
The Penman-Monteith equation â the international standard used by agronomists worldwide â requires air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, and solar radiation, all measured locally. LoEco collects all four variables from your on-site station and calculates reference ETâ and crop-specific ETc values continuously, integrating with your soil moisture data to produce a live water deficit figure.
The result: a daily and cumulative irrigation recommendation based on what your crop has actually consumed â not a calendar, not a rule of thumb.
Frost damage is one of the most economically devastating weather events in agriculture â and one of the most preventable. The challenge is that air temperatures near the crop canopy can be several degrees colder than the nearest official station, particularly on clear, calm nights when radiative cooling is strongest.
MeteoA installs sensors at canopy height and, where needed, at ground level, calibrated to your microclimate. LoEco delivers automated frost alerts via email or SMS whenever forecast or observed temperatures approach configurable thresholds â giving growers the window they need to activate frost protection measures.
The same temperature data feeds growing-degree-day models, disease pressure indices, and spray timing advisories, turning a single sensor into a year-round crop management tool.
High wind affects agriculture across multiple dimensions: safe windows for spraying and spreading, structural loads on polytunnels and irrigation systems, wind damage to fragile crops and blossoms, and â critically â operator safety on mobile machinery and elevated platforms.
LoEco monitors wind speed and direction continuously at your site, combining 10-minute averages with gust peaks and directional statistics. Configurable threshold alerts flag when conditions exceed your operational or safety limits â whether that's 3 m/s for pesticide application or 10 m/s for machinery operations.
The wind record also feeds backwards into spray drift modelling and agrochemical record-keeping, supporting compliance with application regulations.
A four-step pipeline built specifically around agricultural needs.
We install and commission rain gauges, soil moisture probes, temperature sensors, and anemometers at crop-height and in-field positions â not on a rooftop 50 m away.
All sensors transmit every 10 minutes via LoRaWAN or 4G to the LoEco pipeline, where readings are validated, gap-filled, and archived with full provenance.
ETâ, ETc, soil water deficit, frost risk scores, and growing-degree-day accumulations are computed automatically from your measured variables using standard agronomic methods.
Your LoEco dashboard shows live and historical data. Configurable alerts push notifications before frost, after heavy rain, or when wind exceeds your spray limit â via email or SMS.
Tell us about your crop, location, and the decisions you need to make. We'll propose an instrument configuration and dashboard tailored to your operation â including a hardware count and indicative cost.
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