As connectivity between agriculture devices is foundational to capturing this data, many still struggle with finding a cost-effective and reliable solution that works in rural areas around the world.

Further, most cellular solutions do not provide customers with an option that is designed for a full range of AgTech use cases because they rely on single-carrier agreements that do not consistently work in rural areas.

A few of these use-cases include smart sensors for crop management, irrigation sensors, agricultural drones, greenhouse automation, and precision farming.

LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network) is a commonly used technology that helps address these challenges by using long range, low-power wireless sensors and can be used to monitor farm assets across miles of fields (i.e., soil moisture, temperature, weather conditions, etc.).

However, by itself, LoRaWAN is not a complete networking option as it requires internet backhaul to pass data from the device to the cloud.  As such, satellite, private, and public cellular networks are necessary for a full end-to-end solution.

Finding a technology that enables these devices to stay connected across various networks is critical for pushing the future of connected agriculture and farming forward.