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Digital Bridge installs smart farming systems for farms and livestock operations: soil and climate sensors, automated irrigation control, greenhouse automation, drone-based field analysis and herd tracking. We design and build both the solar-powered field units and the software, so readings, irrigation decisions and plot and animal records sit in a single dashboard.
Why it matters: when to irrigate, how much fertiliser to apply, which animals are due a vaccination. On many farms these calls still rely on experience and a notebook. With water restrictions tightening and input costs rising, guessing is expensive, and patchy records become a problem the moment a certification auditor arrives.
The outcome: irrigation runs on readings rather than routine, problem plots show up early, and every plot and animal has a complete history.
Soil moisture, temperature and pH are measured, and valves open and close against the thresholds you set. Our precision agriculture IoT stops unnecessary watering.
NDVI crop health maps and detection of disease and water stress. With drone data processing, problem areas are found without walking every row.
Ventilation, screens and heating respond automatically to temperature, humidity, CO2 and light, with energy use and climate targets tracked side by side.
Ear tag or chip scans log births, vaccinations, treatments, milk yield and feed intake per animal, and animals due a jab or check appear on a ready-made list.
Fertiliser, crop protection, feed and seed stock tracked, with each application recorded by plot, date and quantity, so cost per plot is visible.
The field records required for Good Agricultural Practice and organic certification kept digitally, so the audit file comes from the system rather than scattered notebooks.
Overnight the soil moisture sensor reports in: if moisture is above the threshold the valve stays shut, and when it drops below, irrigation starts on its own and the time it ran is written to the plot record. Nobody has to drive out to decide whether today is a watering day.
A drone flight produces an NDVI map showing crop stress in one corner of the orchard, so the team goes straight there instead of walking every row. In the shed, animals due a vaccination are on the morning list; each jab is recorded by scanning the ear tag, and that record comes straight from the system at the certification audit.
We review plot layout, existing irrigation, crop pattern and how records are kept today.
Measurement points are chosen, and LoRa or NB-IoT selected according to local coverage.
Sensors and valve controllers are installed; irrigation schedules and alarm thresholds are configured.
We go through the season's data with you and adjust irrigation thresholds and the fertiliser plan to match.
Built through our own IoT device manufacturing, our field units run on solar power and send data over LoRa across several kilometres. They are designed for plots with no mains electricity and no mobile coverage.
For sensor choice and installation depth, see our soil moisture sensor guide; for reading a drone map, the NDVI analysis guide; and for heat, health and location tracking, the livestock monitoring guide. All articles on sensors and field devices are under IoT and hardware guides.
To manage plots on a map, our geographic information systems (GIS) work alongside the farm system. For seasonal worker attendance, SmartPass turns an NFC-enabled Android phone into a mobile terminal; if the connection drops, reads are queued and transferred in full once it returns.
Let us walk your land or farm with you: call us or fill in the contact form to book a site visit.
A smart farming system combines field sensors and software so that decisions are based on measurements rather than routine. Digital Bridge installs soil and climate sensors, automated irrigation control, greenhouse climate automation, drone-based field analysis, herd tracking, input and store records and certification records, all brought together in a single dashboard.
Sensors measure soil moisture, temperature and pH. When moisture drops below the threshold you set, the valve opens automatically and closes once the target is reached. Irrigation therefore runs on readings rather than a fixed schedule, which stops unnecessary watering. Thresholds are fine-tuned together after the first season's data.
Yes. The field units we design and build run on solar power and send data over LoRa across several kilometres. They are intended for plots with no mains electricity and no mobile coverage. Before installation, LoRa or NB-IoT is chosen according to the coverage available on site.
Scanning an ear tag or chip logs each animal's births, vaccinations, treatments, milk yield and feed intake. Animals due a vaccination or check appear on a ready-made list, so follow-ups no longer depend on a notebook or memory. Each animal's history can be reviewed at any time.
Yes. The field records required for Good Agricultural Practice and organic certification are kept digitally, including which fertiliser or crop protection product was applied to which plot, when and in what quantity. The audit file comes straight from the system instead of scattered notebooks, and cost per plot is visible too.
Drone field analysis produces an NDVI map from multispectral imagery that shows healthy and stressed parts of a crop in colour. Areas with signs of water stress, disease or nutrient shortage are found without walking the whole field, so the team goes straight to the affected plot. Each map is stored with the plot record, so the same plot can be compared from season to season.
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