Maungo & Co brings affordable soil-sensing and irrigation intelligence to South Africa's small and medium farms — so watering decisions are based on real soil data, not fixed schedules or guesswork.
Most small and medium farmers decide when to irrigate using fixed schedules, experience or a quick look at the soil surface. Conditions change field to field and week to week — and without visibility, that guesswork carries a real cost.
A simple, affordable pipeline that turns soil conditions into a clear irrigation decision.
Soil moisture, temperature and flow sensors placed at root depth in the field.
Readings transmit over Wi-Fi or LTE from a low-cost IoT device.
Data is stored and tracked over time in a central backend.
The farmer sees live and historical readings by field and zone.
Threshold alerts — and eventually automated control — guide watering.
Precision irrigation for high-value crops: strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, tomatoes, herbs and vegetables where water directly drives yield and quality, and the payback on getting irrigation right is easiest to prove.
Soil, weather and flow sensor kits sized to the farm, installed and calibrated on-site; the entry point into the platform.
Recurring monthly revenue for live monitoring, water-use reporting, maintenance and as the platform matures, automated irrigation and predictive recommendations.