Smart green management that sees more than soil moisture
Cities and green contractors keep street trees, parks and new plantings alive with one soil-moisture number per sensor. FairGrow gives you the full picture: soil, canopy stress from the air, self-powered sensors and automated watering decisions across your whole green estate, not just the spots where a probe happens to sit.
Most monitoring platforms stop at a single reading: how wet is the ground next to this one tree. That tells you where a probe is, not where your trees are actually in trouble. FairGrow was built to close that gap.
The problem with sensor-only green management
Public green budgets are tight and every watering round costs fuel, hours and CO₂. Soil-moisture sensors were a good first step, but they leave real blind spots.
You only see the trees with a sensor
Most of your stock has none. “Related location” guessing is an estimate, not a measurement of the tree you are actually worried about.
Soil moisture reacts late
By the time the root zone dries out, the canopy is often already stressed. You find out after the damage has started, not before.
Sensors depend on a network
LoRaWAN gateways, coverage gaps and dead zones turn a simple probe into an infrastructure project before you measure a thing.
What FairGrow adds on top
FairGrow keeps everything you expect from soil monitoring and layers real intelligence on top, so you act earlier and cover more than the instrumented spots.
Canopy stress from the air
Drone and aerial imagery turns every tree, bed and lawn into a data point, including the ones without a sensor. Vegetation indices (NDVI/VARI) reveal stress in the canopy before soil sensors catch it.
Self-sufficient sensors
FairGrow’s field satellites form their own mesh. No LoRaWAN gateway, no SIM, no coverage survey. Multi-year battery life and configurable frequency, and they keep talking where a public network does not reach.
Weather and growth models you own
FairGrow self-hosts its own weather layer (ERA5 reanalysis, air-quality and forecast models) plus growing-degree-day and leaf-wetness engines. Advice is driven by real agronomy, not a single moisture percentage.
Automated watering decisions
Set the rules once. FairGrow’s workflow builder turns thresholds, weather and canopy stress into concrete actions and optimized rounds, so the platform tells you what to do and in what order.
Drone scouting, route-planned
Plan flights over your green stock, fly the survey, and let FairGrow build the orthomosaic and stress maps. No-fly zones are respected and the focus clips to the areas that need a closer look.
Your whole estate on one screen
Street trees, parks, new plantings and estates in one dashboard, in 20+ languages, hosted in Europe with full data sovereignty.
FairGrow vs. sensor-only platforms
The same soil monitoring you already trust, plus the layers that close the blind spots.
| Capability | Sensor-only platforms | FairGrow |
|---|---|---|
| Soil-moisture monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| Historical data & dashboard | Yes | Yes |
| Optimized watering routes | Yes | Yes |
| Coverage of trees without a sensor | Estimated (“related location”) | Measured from the air (NDVI/VARI) |
| Early canopy-stress detection | No | Yes |
| Works without LoRaWAN or a public network | No | Self-sufficient mesh |
| Self-hosted weather & growth models | No | ERA5 + GDD + leaf wetness |
| Automated decision workflows | Route only | Rule-based actions |
| European data sovereignty | Yes | Yes |
| Interface languages | Limited | 20+ |
Soil moisture is where sensor-only platforms stop. It is where FairGrow starts, adding the aerial, weather and automation layers that tell you which trees need water before the canopy shows it.
Where teams put it to work
Aftercare for new plantings
Catch stress in week one, not after die-off. Young trees are where the losses and the replacement costs hurt most.
Data-driven watering rounds
Fewer trips, lower fuel and CO₂, every litre where it counts. The round follows the data, not the calendar.
Relocating valuable trees
Monitor soil and canopy through the critical recovery window, so a transplanted specimen actually survives the move.
Drought & sustainability reporting
Quantify water saved and survival rates for council and citizens, with data you can stand behind.
Built in Europe, hosted in Europe
Your green data stays yours
FairGrow runs on European infrastructure with full data sovereignty and GDPR compliance. No US cloud exposure, no vendor lock-in on a foreign weather API, right down to the weather models we host ourselves. Public green is public trust, and the data that describes it should never leave your control.
Green management, answered
Do we have to replace our existing sensors?
No. FairGrow works alongside soil-moisture data and adds the aerial and workflow layers on top. You keep what you have.
Do we need a LoRaWAN network?
No. FairGrow’s field satellites run on a self-sufficient mesh, so you are not tied to gateway coverage or a public network. See how our sensors connect.
How does FairGrow see trees without a sensor?
Through periodic drone and aerial imagery and vegetation indices (NDVI/VARI) that score every tree, bed and lawn, not just the instrumented spots.
Is our data safe and European?
Yes. Everything is hosted in Europe under GDPR, including the weather models we run ourselves.
Can it scale from a few streets to a whole city?
Yes. One dashboard covers single plantings up to entire municipal estates, in 20+ languages.
Ready to see more than soil moisture?
Cover every tree, act before the canopy stresses, and let the platform plan the round. Tell us about your green stock and we will show you what the full picture reveals, with no obligation.