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How to Build a Farm Monitoring System with the Sensors and Software You Already Use

September 27, 2026
Data Analytics
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Most farms already own more sensors than they realise: a weather station, grain store cables, a milk tank controller, EID readers and machinery telematics. This guide shows how to join them into one farm monitoring system: audit what you own, get data out through APIs, Modbus, MQTT, exports or alarm relays, connect over LoRaWAN and 4G, choose between Home Assistant, Node-RED and Grafana, set alerts from AHDB and milk-cooling thresholds, and budget with a worked example (£5,370 in year one, £6,810 over three years) and FETF 2026 reference prices.

How to Install Prometheus and Grafana on Ubuntu 26.04

July 13, 2026
Linux
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Prometheus is an open-source metrics collection and alerting system, while Grafana provides beautiful dashboards for visualising those metrics. Together they form the most popular open-source monitoring stack. This guide installs both on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with Nginx and SSL. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with Nginx installed A user […]

How to Install Prometheus and Grafana on Ubuntu 24.04

January 2, 2025
Linux
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Prometheus is a powerful time-series monitoring system and Grafana is the leading visualisation dashboard. Together they form the most popular open-source monitoring stack. This guide installs both on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 24.04 LTS server A user with sudo privileges Minimum 2 GB RAM Step 1 – […]