Labs
Labs is where technology gets exposed to conditions that do not care about a specification sheet: heat, dust, rain, unreliable power and intermittent connectivity. Some of this becomes product. Some of it becomes advice about what not to do.
A low-cost weather and soil monitoring station running on solar power at a working farm, reporting over intermittent mobile coverage.
The open question
How much useful agronomic signal can you get from hardware cheap enough to lose?
A field gateway that buffers sensor data locally and reconciles it when a connection returns, rather than assuming one exists.
The open question
What is the smallest reliable sync protocol for a site that is offline half the week?
A chat assistant embedded in GIS tooling that understands the layers actually loaded and can execute mapping actions on them.
The open question
Does an assistant with real layer context beat a general chatbot enough to justify the integration?
Connected traceability for agricultural supply chains, aimed at the evidence requirements now landing on smallholder-sourced goods.
The open question
What is the least data a smallholder can be asked for that still satisfies a buyer audit?
Related product: SusChain
Solar and battery sizing for instruments that must survive a week of overcast weather without a site visit.
The open question
Where is the crossover between a bigger panel and a lower duty cycle?
Handheld measurement tools built from commodity parts, designed to be repaired in a workshop rather than returned to a vendor.
The open question
Can a repairable instrument stay accurate enough to be trusted in a report?
Labs work is not product, and is not trying to be. Some of it becomes product later. Some of it becomes the reason we advise a client not to go down that road.
We collaborate on field trials and applied research, particularly where the environment is the hard part.