SMART FARMRegenerative farming isn't doing less — it's doing it precisely.
Most fields are watered on a schedule, not on need. Smart Farm turns a farm into one sensing organism: a low-cost mesh reads the soil and canopy, an AI agronomist reasons over it and the weather, and the farmer acts — or hands the decision to the system. Here's the data behind it, live.
Every node on the mesh, broken out on its own. Newest data sits up front; older readings fold away behind it. Poke a sensor and watch its line move.
Water demand isn't flat. Each crop has a season-long thirst curve — its FAO-56 crop coefficient — with a window where a few dry days cost the whole year. A calendar misses that window. Data doesn't.
That's a single field at ~12 inches of applied water (1 acre-inch ≈ 27,154 gallons). Multiply by every field, every season — agriculture is the planet's largest draw on fresh water.
Greenhouse & controlled-environment ag — a focus of Cox Enterprises' cleantech investment — pushes this further: closed-loop sensing recycles water and cuts the draw per pound of produce dramatically.
Built for the Cox Enterprises “Play With Purpose” hackathon · Agriculture / Regenerative track. Crop coefficients are FAO-56 (Allen 1998); water figures assume ~12 in applied over 50 acres and savings illustrative of published sensor-irrigation literature. The live feed and pump relay are real hardware.