Agriculture

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.

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.

Meadowbrook's 2,400-cow operation tracked herd health in a vet's app, feed rationing in a nutritionist's spreadsheet, and milk production in the processor's portal — none of which talked to each other. Feed was 58% of operating cost and was being over-delivered by an estimated 7% because rations weren't adjusted for each pen's production. Vet visits were scheduled on a clipboard at the parlor, and 1 in 9 health events was caught a full cycle late, costing an average of $340 per cow in lost production and treatment. Most painfully, Meadowbrook was consistently missing the milk-quality bonus from its processor — worth $1.2M a year — because somatic cell count spikes weren't tied back to the specific pen and cow in time to intervene.

We deployed our ERP System tailored to dairy operations: a herd module tracking every cow's health, lactation and breeding record with automated vet visit scheduling; a feed module that adjusts ration delivery per pen based on real-time production data from the parlor; and a milk module that ties somatic cell count and quality metrics back to the specific pen and cow, alerting the herd manager the moment a pen drifts. A single dashboard shows profit per cow, feed cost per litre, and quality-bonus status in real time. The platform went live in 13 weeks and replaced the vet app, the nutritionist's spreadsheet, and the manual quality-bonus reconciliation.