Augos Sense / Agriculture
Agricultural sensing
Measure your soil and water, wirelessly.
Soil moisture, temperature and salinity, plus water level, flow and pressure, measured continuously across your land. Get alerted the moment a reading passes a limit you set, and see it all on one cloud platform.
Augos Sense is wireless IoT sensing for South African sites: battery-powered sensors that measure temperature, humidity, air quality, level, flow, pressure and equipment state, one cloud platform that checks every reading against the limits you set and alerts on WhatsApp, email or SMS, and switches and valves that act on your rules.
Priced per sensor, plus connectivity and the platform, quoted ex VAT
A single sensor can be live in 48 hours, with no wiring to run.
The problem
You are watering and managing your land on a guess.
A crop lives or dies on water and salt in the root zone, but most of it is judged by eye or by a probe someone walks out to now and then. Between those checks, a block can dry out or a line can burst without anyone knowing.
1
Watering blind
Irrigate on a fixed schedule and you either waste water and pump power, or stress the crop, because the schedule never matches what the soil actually needs.
2
Salt creeping up
Salinity builds in the root zone slowly and invisibly, until yield drops and no one can say when it started.
3
A burst you find at month-end
A pipe bursts or a pump fails overnight, and the first sign is a dry field or a water bill, long after the damage is done.
4
Water you cannot account for
Without flow and pressure on the line, you cannot tell how much water reached the crop, or where it leaked away.
The method
One sensor turns a blind spot into a live reading.
Put a sealed, battery-powered sensor on each condition you care about. It reports to one cloud platform, and Augos does the watching, so you only hear about it when something moves.
1
Measure it
A wireless sensor on each condition, reporting as often as every minute, on a battery, with no wiring to run.
2
Get told
Set the range that matters. The moment a reading passes it, you get a message on WhatsApp, email or SMS.
3
Act on it
Open or close an irrigation valve automatically on a soil-moisture reading or a schedule, or send someone before a block dries out.
What we measure
The soil and water parameters.
Each parameter is a separate sensor, so you deploy only the ones you need and add more anytime.
Soil moisture
Water in the root zone, by depth.
In the knowledge base ›Soil temperature
Temperature in the root zone.
In the knowledge base ›Soil salinity
Salt concentration in the soil.
In the knowledge base ›Water level
Depth in a dam, tank or channel.
In the knowledge base ›Water flow
Rate through a pipe or channel.
In the knowledge base ›Water pressure
Pressure in a supply line.
In the knowledge base ›Water salinity
Salt concentration in the water.
In the knowledge base ›Water conductivity
Dissolved solids in the water.
In the knowledge base ›Air temperature
Ambient air over the crop.
In the knowledge base ›Humidity
Moisture in the air.
In the knowledge base ›Rainfall
Precipitation over time.
In the knowledge base ›Wind speed & direction
How hard, and from where.
In the knowledge base ›Irradiance
Solar energy on the crop.
In the knowledge base ›Wet bulb
Heat stress for crops and livestock.
In the knowledge base ›Dew point
Frost and leaf-wetness risk.
In the knowledge base ›Alerts and thresholds
Set the limits that matter, and hear about it the moment a threshold is exceeded.
Set an upper limit, a lower limit, or both for any sensor here. The instant a reading passes it, the person who can act gets a message, on WhatsApp, email or SMS, and a rule can open an irrigation valve on the same reading.
Soil moisture in one block against a lower limit
IllustrativeMessage sent
Soil moisture is below its limit
21.6 % at Thursday 12:00, under your 22 % lower limit. Irrigation valve opened by rule.
Watered when the root zone needed it, not on a fixed schedule.
Illustrative block and readings, not a customer. The limit and the rule are the ones you set.
Use cases
Where sites put it to work.
Precision irrigation
Soil moisture per block tells you when to water and when to hold, so you use less water and pump less power.
Frost and heat protection
Air and soil temperature on the block trigger frost protection or a heat plan before the crop is hit.
Salinity management
Track salt in soil and water over time, and flush before it costs you yield.
Pump and line health
Pressure and flow catch a burst or a failing pump the moment it happens, not at month-end.
Dam and reservoir levels
Water level in dams and tanks, so you know what you have and get warned before you run dry.
Fertigation and dosing
Conductivity and flow confirm nutrient is reaching the root zone at the rate you set.
The hardware
Sealed sensors for soil and water.
Sealed, battery-powered sensors for soil and water, from a buried moisture probe to a water-level sensor in a dam. Each reports over the network that suits your site. The water level sensor, as the KB specifies it:
- Range: 0 to 100 %, or 0 to 5, 10, 100 or 200 m, accurate to ±2 %.
- Battery: rechargeable, up to 2 years per charge.
- Connectivity: cellular, NB-IoT or LoRa.
- Pump control: a low or high level can trigger an Augos switch.
- Valve controllers: solar-powered control of up to four valves, or battery-powered valve scheduling.
Start small
Start with a single sensor.
No rip-and-replace and no commitment: a single sensor can be live in 48 hours, and you add more once it proves out. Sensors mount magnetically, with no wiring to run and no calibration to perform.
Augos Sense is priced in three parts: the sensors, priced per sensor by what each one is built to measure; connectivity, a monthly cost per sensor; and the platform, one charge per deployment. Figures on request: we size a quote, ex VAT, to the sensors and sites you need.
Questions
How do the sensors connect?
Wirelessly, over LoRa, NB-IoT or Sigfox, chosen for the coverage and density of your site. There is no wiring to run.
How long do the batteries last?
Years, depending on the sensor and how often it reports: the temperature sensor runs up to about two years on a full charge, configuration dependent. Sensors report at intervals you set, from once a minute to a few times an hour, and need no mains and no cabling.
How fast can we install?
A single sensor can be live in 48 hours. Sensors mount magnetically, with no wiring and no calibration, so a site electrician or your own team can fit them without downtime. You add more sensors and sites the same way.
What can it alert on, and how?
Set an upper limit, a lower limit or a rate of change on any sensor. The moment one is passed, the right person gets a message on WhatsApp, email or SMS.
Where does the data go?
Into one cloud platform, hosted in South Africa. Watch it live, set alerts, chart it, or take it out as a download, by API or as an AI-ready export.
How are you priced?
Per sensor, plus connectivity monthly and the platform per deployment, quoted ex VAT. The single-sensor pilot is the standard way in.
Start with a single sensor.
Book a short call. Tell us what you need to watch, and we'll show you the sensor, the alerts and the control working on your own site.