At its core, Tuctronics is an electronics engineering firm. We can design hardware for almost anything, and we write the firmware, servers, web pages and phone apps that go with it. AgriNET is built on that work: custom hardware running our own code to control and monitor almost every sensor and actuator found in commercial agriculture.
We lay out our own circuit boards and build them in our hardware shop in Walla Walla, Washington, from a single prototype to orders of any quantity. Because we design the electronics ourselves, we can fit the board to the job rather than the job to an off-the-shelf part.
Our solar-powered telemetry hardware is built around the Digi NB-IoT module. It reads Modbus, I2C, SDI-12 or analog sensors and sends every reading into a SQL database, where the AgriNET app, your own software or a custom dashboard can use it.
See it at work in our Sentek soil moisture telemetry and weather stations.
This controller runs three latching solenoid valves from a single board. A latching solenoid only needs a short pulse to open or close, which saves power on solar sites, but it gives no sign that it actually moved. So our firmware records the electrical signature of every pulse and checks it, confirming that the valve really actuated.
The signature also changes with the water pressure on the valve, so the same measurement senses line pressure without a separate pressure sensor.
Tell us what you need to control or monitor. We design the system, build the hardware and program it, and we support it after it is installed.
Todd Tucker · 509.301.0640 · todd@tuctronics.com
