Agricultural Weather Networks

Running an ag weather network means carrying the weight of every decision that depends on your data—from irrigation timing to disease forecasting. You need site-specific insights that show up consistently, because there's no room for guesswork or delay. But traditional systems can be expensive, complex, and hard to scale. METER helps you build dense, high-performance ag networks using research-grade, all-in-one weather stations and soil moisture sensors—all designed for fast installs, low maintenance, and reliable data across every field.

Weather monitoring
Soil moisture
API connection

Weather monitoring

Building a reliable ag network shouldn't require a team of specialists. When you're managing or expanding an agricultural weather network, every station added should strengthen your data—not slow down your deployment. METER’s all-in-one weather stations are designed for simplicity without sacrificing accuracy—install in under 15 minutes and start streaming data immediately. With flexible configuration options—including cellular or Wi-Fi cloud connectivity—you can tailor your setup to fit regional infrastructure, scale faster, and get high-quality environmental data flowing from the field to your platform with minimal overhead.

Air temperature, barometric pressure, solar radiation, precipitation, lightning strike count and distance, vapor pressure, relative humidity, wind speed, direction, and gust

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Soil moisture

If you're only measuring weather, you're only seeing half the picture. For agricultural weather networks to drive truly accurate forecasts and actionable insights, you need to understand what’s happening below the surface. Measuring both volumetric water content (VWC) and soil water potential is critical to modeling water movement through the system—from rainfall and evapotranspiration to root zone availability. With METER’s research-grade soil moisture solutions, you can integrate deeper insight into your network—giving growers the clarity to protect yield, reduce water waste, and respond with precision.

Soil water content

Soil water potential

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API connection

With an ag weather network, collecting great data is just the beginning. The real power lies in how quickly and seamlessly you can put that data to work. ZENTRA Cloud makes it easy to push environmental data directly into your database or platform using REST or Push API connections. In just a few steps, you can integrate real-time weather and soil data into custom dashboards, analytics tools, or decision support systems—amplifying the value of every data point across your network.

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ZENTRA System

Customize your data collection and logging solution by combining multiple METER sensors with the ZL6 Data Logger and ZENTRA Cloud. ZENTRA stores your data in the cloud, allowing easy access to your data and near-real-time reports from all of your data loggers.

Avoid costly field visits by accessing your data from any web-connected device. Analyze it with ZENTRA Cloud’s built-in visualization tools, and easily share insights without tracking down log files on individual computers.

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"It was METER that really bought into our vision and our mission and then provided us all the support that we needed to have such [weather] stations."

CEO Frank Ohene Annor | TAHMO

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