Increase Frost Flight Accuracy.
Automate pilot guidance directly to the frost zones.
Turn invisible temperature data into immediate visual action. Our sensors detect freezing thresholds at the crop level and light up physical beacons, giving helicopter crews a clear guide to hit the exact blocks requiring immediate airflow.
Operational Advantage:
Targeted Flights for Maximum Yield Protection
Helicopter frost protection relies entirely on timing and positioning. Flying without localized ground data means burning fuel over safe zones while invisible micro-climates freeze and damage your crop. Aerofrost dictates the flight path so you put airflow exactly where the crop needs it most.
Targeted Early Warning
Regional weather stations cannot detect local orchard drops. Aerofrost uses wireless IoT sensors to monitor air temperature, humidity, dew point, and wet bulb temperature directly at the crop level, triggering alerts to ground crews and pilots before visible damage occurs.
Real-Time Air & Ground Guidance
Turn invisible temperature drops into a live visual feedback loop. Our ultra-bright 180° LED beacons guide helicopters in from above while directing ground crews to exact zones for supplementary prevention. As soon as the helicopter's rotor wash pulls warm air down and neutralizes the local risk, the lights instantly change state. This real-time visual clearing signals teams to break off and immediately move to the next active threat without wasting hover time.
Hardware Execution:
Localized Detection and Response
Aerofrost deploys as individual, wireless units that are fully solar and battery-powered. While they communicate continuously with a centralized base station, the immediate field response relies on local hardware edge-computing—not the cloud. If wet-bulb thresholds drop, the unit recognizes the threat independently, ensuring your beacons activate even if farm internet or cellular connectivity goes down.
Sense
Rugged, wireless IoT units continuously sample the air at the exact canopy level. The sensors measure Air Temperature, Wet Bulb, Dew Point, and Humidity with high industrial accuracy (±0.5°C), ensuring no micro-fluctuation is missed.
Evaluate
The unit doesn't wait for a server ping to make a decision. Onboard, threshold-based logic evaluates the environmental variables locally. The moment the wet-bulb temperature crosses your pre-defined critical threshold, the unit independently initiates the response.
Signal
Integrated, ultra-bright LED beacons activate in the orchard. Visible from several hundred meters away, the lights trigger in distinct modes (steady or flashing) to dictate urgency, giving air and ground crews an unmistakable physical 180° target in pitch darkness.
Record
While the unit operates locally, it simultaneously transmits the event data via a proprietary, AES128-encrypted LoRa network. Pushing data up to 15km through dense canopies to your central gateway, it populates your live fleet dashboard for total operational oversight.
No internet? No problem. See how edge-first architecture protects your crop.
Post-Flight Data &
Live Fleet Oversight
The Aerofrost digital platform serves as the central command hub for your frost infrastructure. It gives you real-time visibility during an event, instant remote control, and the historical data needed to refine your strategy the morning after.
Live Fleet Monitoring
View the real-time thermal status and active threat levels of 100+ device clusters per gateway on a single interface.
Custom Threshold Control
Different crops and topographies require different parameters. Remotely adjust the exact wet-bulb trigger temperatures for individual blocks or entire zones directly from the dashboard.
Mobile Threat Alerts
While the hardware activates visual beacons in the field, the platform pushes immediate SMS and mobile notifications to your management team, ensuring you have time to scramble the helicopters.
Frost Heatmapping
Frost patterns repeat. Every temperature drop and threshold breach is logged to generate live heatmaps and historical datasets. This proves exactly where your farm freezes first, allowing you to optimize future flight paths, ground crew placement, and infrastructure planning.
Automated System Health
Manage your fleet remotely. The dashboard tracks real-time device battery levels, solar charging status, and LoRa connection strength, ensuring your network is armed and ready before the cold hits. Backed by a 60-day local data backup directly at the gateway.
Technical Specifications & Reliability
Built for prolonged exposure in harsh agricultural environments and zero-maintenance winter operation.
| Category | Specification |
|---|---|
| Sensing Architecture | Air Temp, Wet Bulb, Dew Point, Humidity (±0.5°C accuracy). Continuous sampling every 60 seconds. |
| Visual Beacon | 50,000hr LED lifespan, 180° horizontal beam spread. Visibility up to 1,000 meters / identifiable from 500ft AGL. |
| Alert Channels | SMS, Email, and In-App Push Notifications, plus visual dashboard alarms for immediate manager response. |
| Unit Connectivity (Field) | Proprietary Augos LoRa (AES128 Encrypted), up to 15km range through dense canopy. |
| Gateway Connectivity (Base) | Base station transmits to digital platform via onboard 4G/LTE SIM or standard Ethernet. 60-day local data backup on gateway. |
| Power Architecture | 2W Solar Panel + 7000mAh Dual LiPo. Maintains ~2 days off-grid runtime without sun. |
| Physical Build & Mounting | IP65 Rated, UV Resistant, −20°C to +55°C operating range. ~2.5kg. Installs instantly to 40mm pipe or T-posts. |
| Deployment Density | Recommended 1 unit per 2 hectares, depending on block topography. |
Strategic Deployment &
System Onboarding
Aerofrost is engineered for rapid field activation. Because the field units are fully self-powered, there is no need for trenching or wiring. Deployment is a precise process designed to get your farm online quickly and accurately.
Topographical Mapping
We don't just guess where the cold spots are. Deployment starts with mapping your known frost-prone blocks, topographical lows, and micro-climates to determine the exact hardware density and gateway placement required for 100% network coverage.
Hardware & Network Installation
Ruggedized field units are deployed into the blocks, adjusting mounts so sensors sit low and beacons remain high. Simultaneously, the base station is installed at a high point to establish your localized, encrypted LoRa network.
Onboarding & Calibration
Once transmitting, we configure your digital platform. We set specific wet-bulb temperature triggers for your crop varieties, assign mobile alert channels, and ensure your network is fully armed and calibrated before the first drop in temperature.
Talk to Our Team
Protecting your yield starts with visibility.
Aerofrost is designed specifically to support helicopter-led frost protection—where timing, visibility, and precision matter most.
Get in touch to ask technical questions, request a deployment map for your farm, or set up a quick session to explore how the system works.