Case Study: Seymour Ag Instruments boosts greenhouse control and cuts irrigation water with ThingsBoard PE

Seymour Ag Instruments cuts irrigation water by 40% with ThingsBoard PE

Seymour Ag Instruments, a company building agricultural sensing and control hardware, faced the challenge of creating a unified farm-management software platform for its diverse clients. As a four-person team, they needed a solution that could support different farm types, provide strict data separation for each customer, and deliver specialized agronomic interfaces without requiring them to build a complex backend infrastructure from scratch. They chose ThingsBoard Professional Edition (ThingsBoard PE) as their foundational platform.

ThingsBoard PE provided the complete backend, allowing Seymour to model each farm's hierarchy and build custom application screens as widgets on top of the platform. The solution enabled precise environmental control, such as maintaining a 70.3% mean humidity in greenhouses, and automated irrigation based on soil moisture, leading to a 40% reduction in water use for one forestry organization. By leveraging ThingsBoard, the small Seymour team successfully manages over 1,000 devices across 170+ farms, delivering a full-featured product without developing their own server-side infrastructure.

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