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I run 2 small IoT startups.

One is smart agriculture related, we do ambient and soil moisture sensors https://pycno.co

Second, (from the learnings of the first one) offers a smart IoT gateway (cellular, WiFi,LoRa, etc.) with modular cartridges (like SNES) for connecting sensors and actuators from any 3rd party vendor https://deeporbital.com




Seems very niche May I ask how you got in this venture?


Totally random, wanted to do home automation first but it wasn't a big pain for customers (it was a nice to have) and the market was very crowded.

Started talking with agriculture companies and just developed whatever they wanted (HW/SW). Agriculture is a slower moving industry, which gave us time to learn from our plethora of mistakes.

At the end of the day, home automation or agriculture, both needed some measuring, uploading and graphing of data.




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