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Hardware
I/O Controllers & Radios
The valves, pumps and sensors in the field, wired to the gateway over long-range radio — autonomous enough to run without it.
What it does
This is the edge of the network — the controllers that open valves and start pumps, the I/O that reads sensors, and the radios that carry it all back to the on-site gateway. Built to keep working when the link to the gateway, the cloud, or the grid goes down.
The pieces
- IC-100 irrigation controller — valve and pump control, schedules held in flash, fully autonomous. If power returns within 5 minutes of an outage, it resumes the run it was on.
- I/O controllers — read sensors and drive outputs at the point of use; report check-ins, status, events, sensor data and alarms.
- Radio network — 868 MHz narrowband for long-range field sensors and valve nodes; 2.4 GHz BLE (Long Range) for close-range soil probes and commissioning.
Why it matters
- The field keeps running — schedules live on the controller, so a dropped link doesn’t stop irrigation.
- Reach across the farm — sub-GHz radio covers distance; BLE covers density where you need many sensors close together.
- ICASA-friendly — 868 MHz ISM band, licence-free.
In development. Part of what we’re building for the May 2027 launch.