Abstract: Individual agricultural assets at a remote location are each equipped with at least one condition sensor in communication with a location-based controlling transceiver, which in turn communicates with a central monitoring system. The transceiver will monitor data received from the condition sensors and in accordance with predetermined notification parameters will send a signal to the central monitoring system only when a notification condition, for example an elevated temperature reading in the instance of a grain bin, is detected. By only communicating when a transmission bandwidth requirements between the transceiver and the central monitoring system are minimized. Further transmission bandwidth reduction can be achieved by limiting the notification condition parameters limiting transceiver packet. Various conditions including temperature, gas levels or presence, volume or other conditions of various types of assets could be monitored remotely in this way.

Abstract: Sensed conditions are communicated from a cable sensing array suspended in one or more grain storage bins using an adapter which includes a port for making a wired connection with a cable output of the cable sensing array. The adapter further includes a sensor receiver in connection with the port to receive sensed conditions from the cable sensing array, and an interface. In a preferred embodiment, the interface forms a wired connection with a headphone jack of a smartphone. A program executable on the smartphone communicates a sampling instruction from the smartphone to the adapter through the interface to cause the adapter to retrieve the sensed condition data from the sensing array and transmit the sensed condition data back to the smartphone. The program on the smartphone may include further instructions to transmit the data over a wireless network to a remote server for access by internet enabled devices.

Abstract: In a method of communicating between a central server and a plurality of assets over a cellular network in communication with the central server, each asset has a transceiver arranged to communicate with the cellular network which includes an integrated circuit card identifier (ICCID) and an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI). The ICCID of each transceiver is unique, but the IMSI of multiple transceivers are identical to one another. Communication between the assets and the central server is initiated by the asset transceivers and is rescheduled automatically in the event that another transceiver with the same IMSI is already communicating with the central server. Communication from the server to the asset transceivers involves queuing data until the transceiver of the intended recipient transceiver contacts the central server.