Sunrise Agribusiness saved $2.3M a year by wiring 1,200 sensors into one IoT field-monitoring dashboard
A vertically integrated agribusiness running 12,000 acres of row crops had sensors everywhere and insight nowhere — six different vendor dashboards, no alerts, and a frost event that wiped out 800 acres the season before. A unified IoT command platform turned telemetry into action and paid for itself in one avoided event.
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Where they started
Sunrise had invested heavily in IoT — soil probes, weather stations, canal flow meters, grain-bin temperature sensors — over 1,200 devices across 12,000 acres and 14 storage bins. But the data lived in six different vendor portals nobody checked daily, there were no alerts, and the agronomy team learned about problems when a manager called. The previous spring, a forecast frost wasn't caught in time and 800 acres of early-planted corn was lost — a $1.4M hit the board called 'preventable with the data we already had.' Grain-bin hot spots were spotted by smell, not sensor, and one bin fire the year prior cost $420K in lost inventory and repairs.
What we built
We deployed our IoT Command platform ingesting telemetry from all 1,200 existing devices into one dashboard, with anomaly detection that flags soil-moisture deviations, canal flow drops, and grain-bin temperature spikes, and a configurable alerting layer that pages the right person — the irrigator for a flow drop, the bin manager for a temperature rise, the agronomist for a frost forecast within a field's microclimate. Device health monitoring now surfaces failing sensors before they go dark, and a mobile app puts every field and bin's status in the field managers' pockets. The platform went live in 8 weeks and ingested data from all six existing vendor systems without replacing a single sensor.
Target outcomes
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We had 1,200 sensors and no idea what any of them were telling us. The first month the alerts went live, we caught a grain-bin hot spot two days before it would have been another fire — that alone paid for the platform. The frost we missed the year before? We got 14 hours of warning this season and ran the wind machines all night. Zero loss.
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