Improving ground operations with satellite reach

In agriculture, the most valuable acres are often the least connected. Cellular dead zones allow equipment faults, crop stress, water leaks, and storage hotspots to go unnoticed, driving unplanned truck rolls, spoilage, and yield loss.

Our Angle? Pro-Tractor.

Agriculture industry functions like a non-rewindable clock: decision windows close within minutes, weather conditions change unpredictably, and the outcomes affecting crops or livestock remain irreversible. Our network provides farm operators with ubiquitous satellite backhaul that closes last-acre gaps across dispersed fields and remote infrastructure, restoring critical telemetry and control. Iridium connectivity empowers smart, data-driven agriculture solutions and in-season agility with:

Precision operations

Our satellite network provides equipment guidance corrections, machine prescriptions, and seeding and nutrient scripts beyond cellular coverage, collecting telemetry to reduce input waste

Nature-readiness

Our L-band resilience means reliable signal that power through, rain, snow, sleet and even hurricane conditions, with omnidirectional antennas that simplify installation on mobile or fixed assets

Application versatility

Our solutions work for countless farming applications across every acre, eliminating the need to switch hardware or management platforms between projects, assets or seasons

Simplified ag-chem compliance

Satellite backhaul enables continuous monitoring of chemical storage across remote locations, maintaining proof of regulatory conformance with lean auditable inventory trails
IoT Terminals

Engineered for field operations

Easy to deploy and easy to manage, our IoT terminals are designed to avoid deployment complexity and accelerate time to value. Purpose-built devices from the Iridium Edge® family — Iridium Edge®, Iridium Edge® Pro and Iridium Edge® Solar — enable satellite connectivity out of the box, and feature

  • Native support for essential sensor inputs to layer temperature, motion, and temper signals
  • Ultra-low power profiles with solar option for extended remote deployments requiring minimal maintenance visits
  • Rugged, IP-rated enclosures that keep devices operating through violent weather conditions, vibration, and prolonged exposure to sunlight

 

Iridium Edge®

Satellite connectivity, future-proof

Elegant, ultra-slim Iridium modules seamlessly integrate with products of any scale to enable cloud-ready satellite data on existing solutions or streamline new hardware development integrating our connectivity.

More on modules

Iridium Certus 9704

A dedicated module for Iridium Messaging Transport®, designed as a single surface-mount component with 2-square-inch footprint.
IoT data

Small message sizes, big business impact

For industrial use cases, we offer two ultra-efficient data services, optimized for power-constrained assets, cloud-native ingress, and total cost transparency.

  • Iridium Short Burst Data® (SBD®) — a simple, cost-efficient packet-based service, ideal for applications relying on frequent transmissions of smaller data packets, like sensor reports or heartbeat messages.
  • Iridium Messaging Transport (IMT) — a cloud-integrated service that handles payloads up to 100kb; preferred for applications with larger messages, images or file transfers.
     
Kettle farmer checking IoT dashboard

When connectivity becomes business value

Maximize equipment productivity

Capture hours for maintenance planning, stream CAN/ISOBUS data for diagnostics, command, monitor, and geofence autonomous tractors for longer duty cycles with fewer on-site interventions

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Raise healthier herds

Use solar ear tags and collars to send position, activity, rumination, and temperature reports from vast rangeland, get early disease and calving alerts for timely intervention

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Lower water and energy bills

Leverage air temperature, wind speed and direction, precipitation, evaporation, and solar radiation signals to guide spray windows, frost protection, and ET-based scheduling

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Minimize spoilage

Keep silo probes streaming temperature, humidity, and CO₂ data, remotely trigger aeration or fumigation to achieve fewer hotspots, less shrink, and better consistency at out-turn

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Ensure compliance and sustainability

Maintain precise water-use records, spray stewardship, cold-chain documentation, and ensure audit readiness with continuous telemetry while reducing manual data collection

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Control input costs

Enable accurate variable-rate placement and shutoffs across coverage gaps to reduce overlap and waste, support high-accuracy guidance and auto-steer beyond terrestrial correction footprints

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Reliable PNT for Smarter Farming

Protect Your Autonomous AgTech from going Rogue with Iridium PNT

How Iridium PNT Works

Iridium PNT delivers resilient positioning, navigation, and timing designed to help growers maintain confidence in every pass, even when GPS/GNSS signals are weak, obstructed, or compromised.

Powered by a global satellite network proven in the world’s toughest environments, our PNT solutions add an essential layer of protection against common threats like spoofing and jamming. When your equipment can’t risk drift, downtime, or loss of control, we help ensure guidance and timing stay stable, trustworthy, and available.

Why resilience matters in your fields:

  • Spoofing-resistant positioning adds integrity to critical guidance systems
  • Jamming mitigation helps protect tractors and implements from signal loss
  • Reliable accuracy in remote, variable terrain
  • Uninterrupted timing to keep operations aligned during planting, spraying, and harvesting
  • Higher efficiency through reduced rework and improved input precision

 

With Iridium PNT, farms stay productive and protected, anywhere, anytime.
 

Autonomous Ag

As farms adopt more autonomous machinery and aerial systems, reliable connectivity becomes essential. We enable safe, coordinated, always-available operations across large, remote, and bandwidth-challenged environments.

From driverless tractors to long-range UAVs, autonomy depends on resilient links that keep machines informed, aligned, and responsive. Our global network powers advanced capabilities that help growers monitor crops, optimize inputs, and operate more efficiently, even far beyond the reach of terrestrial networks.

Reliable Command Links

Maintain control of autonomous tractors, sprayers, and ground vehicles with proven, low-latency satellite communications—anywhere your fieldwork takes you.

Extended UAV Operations

Enable BVLOS flights for crop scouting, mapping, and spray support with dependable global connectivity that keeps drones online in even the harshest conditions.

Real-Time Sensor Data

Gather continuous environmental, soil, and equipment health data to inform faster, more accurate decisions across every acre.

Fleet Coordination

Keep multi-vehicle operations synchronized and efficient with stable links that support routing, timing, and safe machine interaction.

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Grow stronger business with Iridium

Leverage our global network in real-time monitoring to maximize production output, prevent yield loss, and reduce operational costs.