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Farm telemetry you can install yourself.

Cellular farm and irrigation monitoring for well pressure, tank and canal levels, and pump status. One universal node per site, configured from a dashboard.

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North Valley Telemetry is in active development. Prototype nodes are running in the field and the platform is live. We’re onboarding a small group of early users.

Replay · 24 h in 20 s

Water Pressure

Well House · sample data

47PSI

Pump running

A sample day at a demo well, replayed at 24 hours in 20 seconds. Real nodes report about once a minute, and the dashboard shows each reading as it lands.

The problem

The hardware got cheap. The install never did.

Agricultural telemetry has been stuck in the same place for years. The hardware is expensive, the sensors are proprietary, and every use case needs a specialist to design and install it. Monitoring a single well can cost more than the controller running the pump. Add a second site with a different sensor and you’re back on the phone with an integrator.

The technology stopped being the hard part a long time ago. The cost and the complexity are what’s left.

The approach

One node, one firmware, one dashboard.

Everything else is configuration.

Sensor inputs are defined by an electrical spec, not a part number. Within that spec you choose the sensor that fits the job and tell the dashboard what it’s reading and what units to display. A pressure transducer on a well and an ultrasonic sensor over a canal are the same node with different configuration.

The same is true in the other direction: the node has outputs, so it can switch a pump or open a valve rather than only watch one. Reading and acting are the same node.

Nodes are cellular, so there’s no gateway to site and no line of sight to worry about. Most are battery powered with solar, which means no trenching and no power drop.

Works with

Sensors
Pressure, level, temperature and most other industrial and analog sensors
Switches
Float switches, run status and fault signals
Outputs
Switching pumps, valves and other equipment — in development
A long, narrow green circuit board seen from above at an angle: a row of green screw terminals along the front edge, with a processor module, a cellular modem and a SIM holder behind them.
The current prototype node. Cellular modem, solar or DC power, and screw terminals for sensor wiring. Production hardware is in development.

How it works

Three steps, and none of them need us.

  1. 01

    Mount and wire.

    Bolt the enclosure up, run a few wires from the sensor. No panel work, no gateway, no network to configure.

  2. 02

    Power it on.

    The node provisions itself the first time it boots. No laptop, no terminal, no config file to edit.

  3. 03

    Configure and set alerts.

    Name the site, pick the sensor type and units, set your thresholds. Alerts go to your phone.

In the dashboard

Same screen on the truck seat and at the desk.

The dashboard on a phone: one sensor needing attention, a well's pressure over the last day between 40 and 60 PSI, sitting quiet overnight, holding steady through an early-morning irrigation set and cycling with the day's water use, a bar marking each time its pump ran, and temperature and humidity below.
The dashboard, with sample sites. Readings arrive over cellular; nothing on the farm needs a network.
Add a device, step one of four: scan a QR code, or enter the code printed on the device label. A note explains the device ships unclaimed and finishes setup on its own once powered on.

Claiming a node

Scan the code on the device or type it in. The node finishes its own setup the first time it powers on.

Water pressure detail: the latest reading in PSI, a time range picker set to six hours, and a trend line showing the tank draining slowly and the pump refilling it, with the low, high and reading count below.

One sensor, in detail

Every channel keeps its own history. Drag across the graph to read a value at a point in time.

Sensor settings for soil moisture: an alert rule reading “the reading goes below 20 %”, and a choice of how the sensor looks on the dashboard — a gauge, bars, a tank, a battery, a thermometer and more.

Your own thresholds

Set a trip point per sensor and pick the units it reads in. Alerts go to your phone.

Coverage

What it monitors.

  • Wells and pumps

    Pressure, run status, fault detection

  • Tanks and canals

    Level by pressure or ultrasonic

  • Pump and relay control

    In development

    Switch equipment remotely

  • Soil moisture

    Planned

    Probe-based, per zone

  • Asset tracking

    Planned

    Location and utilization for equipment on the move

  • Custom sensors

    Anything inside the input spec, configured by you

If it produces a signal we can read, it’s a configuration change — not a custom build.

Pricing philosophy

What we’re building toward.

We’re not publishing a price list yet, because we’d rather set it with our first users than guess at it. Here’s what we’re building toward:

  • Node hardware that costs less than a day of custom install labor
  • A flat monthly subscription per device — no per-sensor licensing, no per-data-point billing
  • No long-term contract and no install fee for a setup you can do yourself

If that math matters to your operation, tell us what you’d want to monitor and we’ll talk specifics.

Early access

Request early access.

Tell us what you’d want to monitor first. We’re onboarding a small group, and the ones we can help soonest are the ones we already have a sensor path for.

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