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A weather station for fire danger and work windows, trackers for machines and support trucks, and level and pump sensors in the nursery and seedling irrigation. All of it reaching the same dashboard over cellular where there is a tower, over LoRa radio to a point with signal, and over the DG satellite network where there is nothing at all.
Fire danger is built from weather you can measure, and the stand you need to measure is usually the one without a signal.
The Canadian Fire Weather Index, also used by Europe’s forest fire information system, is computed from four readings: temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and 24-hour rainfall. A station on the plantation measures all four where the fire would start, not at the nearest airport.
Low humidity, strong wind and a run of dry days turn into an alert on the fire crew’s phone the moment they cross the limit, at night and on weekends, without anyone checking a screen.
Planted forests sit far from the office and from the tower. Data that depends on someone going to fetch it arrives late, or never. The DG satellite network delivers the reading from any stand in minutes, tower or no tower.
Plantation forestry means long cycles and large areas. What changes the operation is data that arrives on its own, every day, without anyone driving out to collect it.
Rain, temperature, relative humidity and wind on the farm itself, with history. The basis for planting, fertilizing and spraying decisions, and for the fire danger level.
Low humidity, strong wind and consecutive dry days become an alert to the fire crew by WhatsApp or e-mail. The dashboard shows the trend farm by farm, not a regional average.
Water tank level, pump on or off, irrigation pressure and flow. A pump failure in the nursery becomes a warning right away, not lost seedlings the next morning.
Position, geofences and engine hours for tractors, water tankers and fire crew vehicles. Who is where when the fire starts.
Sensors in the stand reach a point with signal over LoRa radio, or go straight out over the DG satellite network, which delivers in minutes.
REST API for the forest management system you already use. Station and machine data go where your team already plans.
Illustrative example. Alert limits are set with the farm team.
How many farms and stands, where there is a tower and where there is not, what is already measured and what your fire prevention plan asks for.
Where each station goes, which machines get a tracker, which limits trigger an alert and who receives each one.
Stations, trackers and sensors installed and registered, with the dashboard showing the first reading before the crew leaves.
Maintenance by the people who built it, station calibration and alert limits tuned as each dry season teaches.
The truth about weather stations and fire. The station measures and warns; it does not see smoke. Detecting a fire is the job of lookout cameras, towers or fire-detection satellites. What the station does is tell you, with data from your own farm, when the danger is rising, so the crew is in place before anything starts. Over the DG satellite network the alert arrives in minutes, not instantly, even from a stand without a tower, and each satellite message has a cost, so it is used where cellular does not reach.
No. It measures the conditions that make fire likely: air humidity, temperature, wind and days without rain. Detecting a fire is the job of lookout cameras, towers or fire-detection satellites. The station helps the crew get ahead of it.
Yes. Where there is no tower, the data goes over the DG satellite network and arrives in minutes, or over LoRa radio to a point that has signal. The survey picks the path farm by farm.
Yes. Engine hours, position and availability of harvesting machines go on the same dashboard. See our forest harvesting page.
Any planted forest. The station, the trackers and the nursery sensors do not depend on the species; the alert limits are set for your region and your fire season.
An engineer replies, not a bot. Tell us what you already measure and where the signal drops.
Sources: Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System, Natural Resources Canada · European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS).