The Farm With No Cell Signal That Became a Tech Test Bed
"My job is to get data out of places you can't get data out of." That's how Nate Gray described himself the first time we talked. We knew we'd found the right guy.
Seven or eight years ago, we had a grant to test some of the first electric tractors on the market, and a problem: nothing off the shelf could tell us how much energy they used per task — let alone send it from a farm with zero cell service. A manufacturer handed us Nate's number. That call turned into one of MeshComm Engineering's first customer relationships, and a data platform that now runs on electric tractors, side-by-sides…
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