Farm and Agricultural Site Control Where Wi-Fi Stops at the Yard
Remote barns, greenhouses, irrigation pumps, feed stores and perimeter lighting often sit well beyond a stable Wi-Fi signal. LoRa links let control ride on the circuits that already exist, with schedules and alarms running on site and gateway-assisted monitoring added when connectivity is available.
Site constraints
Distance beats the office network
Farm Wi-Fi is usually built around the house or the office. Barns, far greenhouses, pump houses and perimeter lighting fall outside it. Reach for any radio link depends on the band, the antenna, the enclosure, the mounting height, terrain, foliage and the survey, so the design has to be based on those conditions rather than on a stated range.
Wiring to remote points is the main cost
The points that matter are often the ones that are hardest to cable: a pump house at the end of a field, a feed store, lighting along a perimeter. Buried services and long runs are expensive and disruptive, and ground conditions restrict when the work can be done.
Unattended and seasonal operation
Pumps, ventilation and frost or heat protection often have to act with nobody on site. Outbuildings can also see rougher supply conditions and more surge exposure than the main building, which has to be reflected in the enclosure and protection choices.
How the system is arranged
Put control where the cable is expensive
Switches and sensors are placed on existing circuits at the barns, the pump house and the stores. LoRa links carry control and status back to a gateway at the farm office or a technical room, avoiding a new control cable to each remote point.
Required, optional and degraded behaviour
Required: the gateway stays on site and the local schedule and alarm logic runs on it. Time-based switching, threshold alarms and manual control continue without an uplink.
Optional: cloud monitoring, trend history and outbound notifications are added when the owner wants remote visibility. They supplement the local rules rather than replacing them.
Degraded: if the uplink drops, notifications and historic trends pause and queue, while local schedules and alarms continue. If the gateway loses power, the affected circuits fall back to their defined fail states.
Extending an existing installation
The same private network grows with the site. A first phase can cover the pump house and one barn; later phases add greenhouses, stores or perimeter lighting without replacing what is already installed.
What you can verify
- Fewer buried cable and trench runs: control is added to circuits that already reach the remote points.
- Local schedules and alarms continue through an uplink outage, so unattended routines are not tied to a remote service.
- Fault localisation to a single point or pump rather than an entire field or building.
- Threshold alarms can act locally at the sensor, before any remote notification is possible.
- Staged rollout: the site can be extended building by building as budget allows.
Who is involved on site
Electrical contractor or installer
Mounting and enclosure choices that suit rough outbuilding conditions, plus clear fail states for pumps and ventilation circuits.
Site operator or facilities team
Schedules and alarms that run on site without a cloud login, and an override that any farm staff member can use.
Systems integrator
Documented inputs and outputs so sensors and pump circuits can be linked into an existing control or monitoring system where that is required.
Pre-specification checklist
- Site plan showing buildings, pump points and perimeter lighting, with distances between them.
- Supply type and load at each point, including any motor, pump or three-phase circuits.
- Existing cable routes, and where new trenching is possible or forbidden.
- Where a gateway can be housed with power and a network feed.
- Which alarms and schedules must keep acting locally with no uplink at all.
- The target radio band and any local radio rules that apply to the site.
- Terrain, foliage and building materials between the gateway and the remote points.
- Seasonal usage, so the design covers the periods the site is actually operated.
Supported SKUs
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| Model | Radio band | Maximum load | Supply voltage | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LS-RC-16ADIN-rail LoRa relay controller, 16 A, EU868 | EU868 | 16 A | 230 V | inquirable |
| LS-RC-25ADIN-rail LoRa relay controller, 25 A, EU868 | EU868 | 25 A | 230 V | concept |
| LS-DIN-4CH4-channel LoRa DIN controller, EU868 | EU868 | 10 A | 230 V | inquirable |
| LS-GW-100LoRa private-network gateway, Ethernet, EU868 | EU868 | 0.5 A | 12 / 24 V | inquirable |
| LS-SN-THLoRa temperature and humidity sensor, EU868 | EU868 | 0.05 A | 3 V | inquirable |
| LS-SN-MTLoRa occupancy sensor, EU868 | EU868 | 0.05 A | 3 V | concept |
Next steps
Send this first
Send the site plan, the load list and the notes above through the site-fit request. A first response confirms which remote points look feasible by radio and which need a survey.
What happens next
We return a feasibility note covering gateway siting, the proposed radio layout and the points that need a site visit. A confirmed specification and supported SKU list follow the survey, with the conditions each claim depends on stated alongside it.