Improving ground operations with satellite reach
In agriculture, the most valuable acres are often the least connected. Cellular dead zones allow equipment faults, crop stress, water leaks, and storage hotspots to go unnoticed, driving unplanned truck rolls, spoilage, and yield loss.
Small message sizes, big business impact
For industrial use cases, we offer two ultra-efficient data services, optimized for power-constrained assets, cloud-native ingress, and total cost transparency.
- Iridium Short Burst Data® (SBD®) — a simple, cost-efficient packet-based service, ideal for applications relying on frequent transmissions of smaller data packets, like sensor reports or heartbeat messages.
- Iridium Messaging Transport (IMT) — a cloud-integrated service that handles payloads up to 100kb; preferred for applications with larger messages, images or file transfers.
Autonomous Ag
As farms adopt more autonomous machinery and aerial systems, reliable connectivity becomes essential. We enable safe, coordinated, always-available operations across large, remote, and bandwidth-challenged environments.
Agriculture industry functions like a non-rewindable clock: decision windows close within minutes, weather conditions change unpredictably, and the outcomes affecting crops or livestock remain irreversible. Our network provides farm operators with ubiquitous satellite backhaul that closes last-acre gaps across dispersed fields and remote infrastructure, restoring critical telemetry and control. Iridium connectivity empowers smart, data-driven agriculture solutions and in-season agility with:
Precision operations
Our satellite network provides equipment guidance corrections, machine prescriptions, and seeding and nutrient scripts beyond cellular coverage, collecting telemetry to reduce input waste
Nature-readiness
Our L-band resilience means reliable signal that power through, rain, snow, sleet and even hurricane conditions, with omnidirectional antennas that simplify installation on mobile or fixed assets
Application versatility
Our solutions work for countless farming applications across every acre, eliminating the need to switch hardware or management platforms between projects, assets or seasons
Simplified ag-chem compliance
Satellite backhaul enables continuous monitoring of chemical storage across remote locations, maintaining proof of regulatory conformance with lean auditable inventory trails
Reliable PNT for Smarter Farming
Iridium PNT delivers resilient positioning, navigation, and timing designed to help growers maintain confidence in every pass, even when GPS/GNSS signals are weak, obstructed, or compromised.
Powered by a global satellite network proven in the world’s toughest environments, our PNT solutions add an essential layer of protection against common threats like spoofing and jamming. When your equipment can’t risk drift, downtime, or loss of control, we help ensure guidance and timing stay stable, trustworthy, and available.
Why resilience matters in your fields:
- Spoofing-resistant positioning adds integrity to critical guidance systems
- Jamming mitigation helps protect tractors and implements from signal loss
- Reliable accuracy in remote, variable terrain
- Uninterrupted timing to keep operations aligned during planting, spraying, and harvesting
- Higher efficiency through reduced rework and improved input precision
From driverless tractors to long-range UAVs, autonomy depends on resilient links that keep machines informed, aligned, and responsive. Our global network powers advanced capabilities that help growers monitor crops, optimize inputs, and operate more efficiently, even far beyond the reach of terrestrial networks.
Reliable Command Links
Maintain control of autonomous tractors, sprayers, and ground vehicles with proven, low-latency satellite communications—anywhere your fieldwork takes you.
Extended UAV Operations
Enable BVLOS flights for crop scouting, mapping, and spray support with dependable global connectivity that keeps drones online in even the harshest conditions.
Real-Time Sensor Data
Gather continuous environmental, soil, and equipment health data to inform faster, more accurate decisions across every acre.
Fleet Coordination
Keep multi-vehicle operations synchronized and efficient with stable links that support routing, timing, and safe machine interaction.
Iridium Solar Edge
Iridium Edge Pro
Iridium Edge
