Reliable Internet for Precision Agriculture and Smart Farms
For most farms, the most reliable internet doesn’t come from one ISP (internet provider). It comes from agriculture satellite internet like Starlink used together with 4G/5G cellular, plus fixed wireless or DSL where it reaches. Most farms sit too far from town for cable or fiber, and one fixed wireless or DSL line barely covers the farmhouse, let alone a thousand acres of fields. Yet precision agriculture runs on data: soil moisture sensors, yield monitors, drone photos and automatic irrigation controllers all need to report in all day.
When the one internet connection drops, equipment stalls mid-upload, drone footage sits stuck in a queue, and an irrigation controller that goes offline in a heat wave can cost real yield. Speedify, an app for computers, phones and routers, uses every internet connection that reaches the farm at the same time: Wi-Fi, 4G/5G cellular, Ethernet, Starlink and other satellite internet. Sensors, drones and equipment share the combined speed instead of fighting over one internet connection. With only one internet connection, Speedify works as an encrypted VPN and cannot stop that connection from dropping.
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How Speedify combines internet connections on any hardware
Get started with Speedify for your business
Speedify offers three commercial paths. They work together, and most enterprise customers use two or more.
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Speedify Teams
Speedify on every supported OS for every team member
Centralized dashboard for billing, user provisioning, and usage analytics
CSV import/export and a RESTful management API
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Speedify for Routers
License for supported OpenWrt routers
Powered by Speedify hardware lineup ready to deploy out of the box
Miri, GL.iNet and other partner models
Covers every device on the network, with no per-device install
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Embed Speedify into your product
A · DIY
Build it yourself with the Speedify SDK.
Integrate Speedify into your iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux or QNX product. Full developer documentation, sample code and supported integration paths. Your team owns the build, and the Speedify SDK handles combining the internet connections.
B · CUSTOM ENGINEERING
Have the Speedify team build it for you.
Why Farms Struggle to Get Internet Across Their Fields
- Far from any wired network. Fields often sit miles from the nearest fiber or cable, which leaves fixed wireless (internet sent by radio from a nearby tower), cellular or satellite as the only practical options.
- One line, one point of failure. A farm office on one internet provider loses every connected device the moment that line drops, from grain bin monitors to the checkout at the farm shop.
- Weather and hills. Storms weaken satellite signals, hills block cell towers, and trees get in the way of fixed wireless radios, right when irrigation and harvest data matter most.
- Equipment that moves. Tractors, sprayers and combines cross the property all day, drifting in and out of any one carrier’s coverage.
Use Cellular, Fixed Wireless and Starlink Together on a Farm with Speedify
Farm fields rarely sit within reach of one reliable internet connection, which is why using cellular, fixed wireless and Starlink together works better than betting on any one of them.
A farm office might run a fixed wireless line as its main internet connection, a Starlink dish at the back of the property, and a cellular modem as a third internet connection, with Speedify using all three together as one internet connection that’s faster than any of them alone. For how Starlink and 5G work together, see using Starlink and 5G together for business.
When one internet connection weakens, Speedify moves its traffic to the others right away, so a weak cellular signal at the edge of a field doesn’t stop an upload or an equipment sync.
Speedify needs at least two working internet connections. A farm with one weak cellular signal and nothing else is still limited to that one signal’s speed. Speedify can’t create speed the farm doesn’t have. It gets the farm close to the combined speed of every internet connection it does have. If the farm already runs on Starlink, here is how to keep a Starlink farm online.
Keep Farm Sensors, Drones and Equipment Online as Connections Flicker
Soil sensors, drone docking stations and self-driving equipment send data all the time, and Speedify keeps that data moving even as individual internet connections flicker. Speedify encrypts all of it, so equipment and yield data stay protected.
For fixed spots like the farm office or an equipment shed at the property line, a Powered by Speedify router covers every device on the local network, with nothing to install on each sensor or controller. For tractors and trucks, Speedify runs on laptops, tablets and routers mounted in the cab, and keeps working as the equipment moves across the fields.
How to Set Up Speedify for a Farm Office and Farm Vehicles
Getting a farm set up takes a few steps:
- List every internet connection that reaches the property: fixed wireless, cellular plans, and any satellite dish.
- Download Speedify on the farm office computer, a router that works with Speedify, or a laptop or tablet in any vehicle that needs internet in the field.
- Connect each internet connection and check that Speedify shows all of them.
- Set a priority for each internet connection in Speedify: Primary for the ones to use all the time, Backup for a cellular plan with a data cap.
- Test it: unplug one internet connection in the middle of an upload and check that the upload keeps going.
For agribusinesses and farms with many sites or connected machines: Speedify can cover every field office, shed and vehicle. Contact Us to plan the setup.
For family farms: Download Speedify on the farm computer and use Starlink and 4G/5G cellular together.
Speedify Business Solutions
Speedify Teams
Speedify for Routers
Speedify Embedded Solutions and Integrations
Add Speedify to your own app or hardware with the Speedify SDK. Your product then combines internet connections, fails over automatically when one drops, and encrypts the traffic, using the same technology as the Speedify app.