Remote monitoring

Rapid changes

While many farmers are uncomfortable to adopt new technology, modern requirements of production systems while ensuring economic viability illustrate the need for intelligent and efficient solutions

Smart insight

The development of open-access long-range radio communications technology has great potential for environmental monitoring and industrial sustainability.

While a relatively new development in Canada, in other parts of the world, the open-access Things Network is well-established to provide underlying infrastructure, using the LoRaWAN radio communications protocol. This system provides a subscription-free, long-range* capability for environmental projects and their partners - business, environmental agencies.

Promising results

By reducing the complexity of device acquisition, deployment, and maintenance, the OLN helps make it easier for this technology to be easily adopted for landscape stakeholders, and have the data immediately shared in the appropriate context.

Types of sensors and related monitoring systems that have already been developed and now actively used in projects around the world include soil, weather, animal / bird detection and tracking, and more.

Using the open.landscape.network as a complementary layer, the underlying LoRa communications infrastructure can be deployed and continuously optimized to reach maximum coverage.