Precision
Farming Electronics Built for the
Field
Variable rate controllers, soil sensing arrays, drone payloads, irrigation automation, and FMIS integrations — purpose-built for production agriculture from seed to harvest.
The Problem We Solve
Off-the-Shelf Precision Ag Hardware Cannot Keep Up With Your Operation
The major precision ag vendors — Trimble, John Deere, Raven, Topcon — design their hardware for the median farm. Anything above 5,000 acres, anything involving non-standard implement configurations, anything requiring multi-crop sensing logic, or anything that must integrate deeply with a custom farm management workflow exposes the limits of their closed ecosystems quickly.
Variable rate application controllers that only work with one brand of rate controller. Soil sensing systems that write proprietary data formats. Irrigation automation hardware that cannot handle the pivot configurations on your operation. Livestock monitoring systems optimized for dairy feedlots that price themselves out of beef stocker economics. These are not edge cases — they are the reality for a significant share of production acres in North America.
Ankh builds custom precision agriculture electronics for operations where the standard catalog runs out. We write native ISOBUS firmware, design LoRaWAN sensor networks tuned to your soil type and field topology, and build FMIS integrations that push data into your platform in real time — not in nightly batch exports.
Precision Agriculture Electronics
From variable rate controllers and soil sensing arrays to drone payloads and livestock monitors — custom electronics for production-scale farming.
Platforms & Protocols
Built on Agriculture-Grade Platforms
Why Engineering Teams Choose Ankh
ISOBUS from the Specification, Not the Middleware
ISOBUS is ISO 11783 — eleven parts covering physical layer, data link, network, transport protocol, network management, virtual terminal, task controller, position receiver, tractor ECU, and the AUX-N function. Most precision ag electronics vendors use third-party ISOBUS middleware stacks because writing to the specification is hard. Ankh writes firmware to the ISO 11783 specification directly — Task Controller client and server, Virtual Terminal implementation, and AUX-N auxiliary function assignment. When your implement has a non-standard ECU configuration or your customer requires compliance with a specific VT version, middleware assumptions do not get in the way.
Soil Physics, Not Sensor Datasheets
Tensiometric sensors measure soil water potential — they respond to the energy state of water in the soil matrix rather than volumetric content, making them inherently calibration-free for many applications but mechanically sensitive at low potentials. Capacitance sensors measure apparent dielectric permittivity and are highly sensitive to bulk density variation, temperature, and soil electrical conductivity — common sources of error in high-salinity irrigated soils. Time-domain reflectometry measures dielectric properties along a transmission line and offers the highest spatial resolution but requires careful electrode geometry. Ankh selects and designs sensor hardware based on the soil physics of the deployment.
Livestock Economics by Production System
An RFID ear tag that costs $8 per head is economically viable for a 2,000-head dairy herd with a $3,500 cow value and a 300-day lactation cycle to amortize it over. The same ear tag is economically marginal for a 15,000-head beef stocker operation where animals turn in 120 days and value per head is $600. Cattle health monitoring hardware economics are different from dairy monitoring economics, which are different from swine monitoring economics. Ankh designs livestock monitoring hardware with production system economics as a first-class design constraint — not as a cost reduction exercise applied after a dairy-optimized design already exists.
Full Stack from Sensor to FMIS
Soil sensor hardware, LoRaWAN network design, gateway firmware, FMIS API integration, and agronomist-facing data visualization — under one roof, with no integration gap between the hardware team and the software team. The firmware engineer who designs the LoRaWAN spreading factor strategy for your field topology is the same person who validates the data throughput to your Climate FieldView integration. The hardware engineer who selects the capacitance sensor electrode geometry is the same person who specifies the data normalization algorithm. Precision agriculture generates value at the intersection of hardware and data. Ankh owns both sides.
FPGA Edge AI Spot-Spray Drone for Broadacre Row Crops
Custom drone payload electronics combining a MicaSense Altum multispectral camera interface, Xilinx Zynq FPGA inference board, and 120-nozzle PWM spray controller. 47ms end-to-end latency from multispectral frame capture to nozzle actuation — enabling real-time spot-spray on a 15m/s fixed-wing platform across commercial broadacre corn and soybean fields. Herbicide volume reduction of 68% versus blanket application in post-emergent broadleaf weed control trials.
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ISOBUS firmware from the specification. LoRaWAN networks designed for your field topology. RTK GNSS, FPGA edge AI, FMIS platform integrations — full-stack precision agriculture electronics from sensor hardware to cloud, under one roof.
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