Smart Farm Automation Suite
Our affordable, solar-powered farm automation suite streamlines your farming needs.
Save on labor, time, and energy with our advanced automation systems.
SOLAR-POWERED PRECISION FARMING ROVER
Our low-cost Precision Farming Rover (PFR) is designed to advance modern farming through sustainable, efficient practices. Solar-powered, lightweight, and open-source, the PFR reduces farming’s environmental impact, conserves resources, and minimizes the use of harmful chemicals, protecting both farmworkers and communities.
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After successfully building and testing several versions, Twisted Fields is now offering farmers the chance to beta-test our PFR. This approach ensures the technology remains affordable, accessible, and effective. By sharing our designs and code, we invite others to collaborate, experiment, and help optimize farm automation with this innovative technology.
IRRIGATION SYSTEM
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This low cost, low power, scalable irrigation management system with a simple interface. Using your phone, you can easily schedule watering for up to a weeks time for our easily movable sprinklers.
This solar powered battery system allows for watering around the clock. Sprinklers are lightweight and easily movable.
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GOATBOT
*Temporarily out of stock*
Goatbot is a GPS-guided system for automated herd management. The prototype collar, equipped with a Raspberry Pi, GPS module, and inertial measurement unit, tracks the animal's location and direction. Farmers use a mobile device and Google Maps interface to guide the herd via audio and vibration cues, eliminating the need for fences and manual labor. This cost-effective solution promotes sustainable practices like rotational grazing, reducing soil erosion, disease risk, and feed expenses, while encouraging deeper plant root systems to restore soil nutrients. Goatbot simplifies herd management and enhances farm sustainability.
STACKABLE FARMING FOR SUSTAINABLE FOOD PRODUCTION
Lack of year-round fresh produce in "food deserts" affects the health of 13.5 million Americans, where only fast and processed food is available. Controlled environment agriculture (CEA), like greenhouses and "plant factories," could help, but high building and labor costs pose challenges. This project will create a flexible, cost-effective CEA system using stackable farming and robots instead of large, fixed infrastructure, cutting both building and operational expenses. Proven robotics from material handling will be adapted for farming.
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The project supports five USDA National Challenge Areas: food security, climate change, childhood obesity, food safety, and water. The system will boost U.S. agriculture competitiveness, reduce weather-related risks, and improve access to affordable, high-quality produce. If successful, this technology could encourage policy shifts, promoting local food production and lowering energy costs for agriculture.