Case Study: Powertec Telecommunications achieves up to 40% increased farm productivity with Software AG Cumulocity IoT

Making a difference for farmers: Powertec Communications and Cumulocity IoT

Powertec Telecommunications, an Australian provider founded in 1995, helps connect remote farms and businesses across Australia and New Zealand. Facing huge, sparsely populated properties with poor broadband and many incompatible sensors (weather stations, pumps, soil probes), farmers lacked a holistic view of operations and relied on manual checks; Powertec also needed a simple, resellable IoT package its 1,000+ dealers could deploy.

Powertec built a connectivity device, deployed LoRaWAN and centralized sensor data on Cumulocity IoT (with Apama, Zementis and IoT Edge where needed), enabling remote configuration and unified monitoring. The solution cut development time, gave farmers real‑time alerts (saving a runner five days’ work), delivered a holistic device view, produced yield improvements (25–30% in an India tea farm) and boosted farm productivity by 5–40%, while providing dealers with an 80% complete, customizable IoT offering.

Powertec Telecommunications

Ran McDonald

National Customer Engagement Manager