AgriTech
Data pipelines, IoT and geospatial engineering for agritech teams turning field data into decisions.
MBE certified (Minority Business Enterprise)
Overview
Technology in AgriTech
Agriculture runs on data now: yield maps, machine telemetry, soil and weather sensors and satellite imagery. It only pays off when that data is collected, matched to the right field and shown in a form a grower can act on in time.
Desmata builds the data pipelines, geospatial processing and field-ready applications that agritech products need, and staffs the data engineers, GIS analysts and IoT developers who run them.
The geospatial skills behind RetailGeo Insights, our own location intelligence platform for retailers, apply directly to field boundaries, imagery and spatial analysis.
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Tell us what you are working on. A member of the Desmata team will reply by email or phone.
Call us on +1 (214) 407-8089Challenges
What technology leaders here are dealing with
Challenge 1: Data in too many formats
Machinery, farm management systems and sensor vendors each export their own formats, from ISOXML to shapefiles to proprietary files. Matching them to one field and season takes engineering time.
Challenge 2: Connectivity in the field
Sensors and apps work in places with weak coverage. Devices and mobile apps need to store data locally, sync when they can and recover cleanly from gaps.
Challenge 3: Imagery volume and quality
Public satellites such as Sentinel-2 revisit every few days, but clouds and resolution limit what is usable. Pipelines must pick usable scenes and turn them into field-level indicators without huge compute bills.
Challenge 4: Grower trust in data use
Farmers expect clear terms on who owns, shares and sells their data. Platforms that cannot show this struggle to sign up growers and partners.
Challenge 5: A narrow seasonal window
A bug in planting or spraying season costs more than at other times of year. Releases, testing and support have to be planned around the farming calendar.
How we help
Where Desmata fits in
Build field data and analytics pipelines
Ingestion, cleaning and field-level matching of machine, sensor and imagery data into one model that agronomy and product teams can query.
Build apps for growers and field teams
Offline-first mobile and web tools for scouting, records, alerts and reporting, designed for gloves, sunlight and poor signal.
Process imagery and sensor streams in the cloud
Scalable storage and compute for satellite, drone and IoT data, with cost controls that match seasonal peaks.
Apply machine learning carefully
Yield, stress and disease models with proper validation across seasons and regions, scoped as pilots before wider rollout.
Secure devices and grower data
Device identity, access control and consent management so growers see who can use their data and partners get clean access.
Staff your agritech data team
Data engineers, GIS analysts, IoT and mobile developers on contract, contract-to-hire or direct hire.
Use cases
What we deliver in this sector
Field boundary and yield data ingestion
Pipelines that bring machine files and farm management exports into a consistent field, crop and season model.
Satellite crop monitoring
Vegetation index time series per field, with alerts when growth departs from the expected pattern.
IoT sensor networks
Soil moisture, weather station and irrigation data collected over cellular or LoRaWAN links, with device health monitoring.
Offline-first scouting and record apps
Mobile apps that capture photos, notes and locations without signal and sync when connectivity returns.
Machinery and telematics integration
Connecting equipment data to farm management systems so operations records build themselves.
Traceability and sustainability reporting
Field-level records organized for buyers and programs that ask for practice and input history.
Talent
Roles we staff
- Geospatial data engineer
- GIS analyst
- Remote sensing data scientist
- Data engineer, agricultural data
- IoT software engineer
- Mobile developer (offline-first)
- Full-stack developer
- Machine learning engineer, computer vision
- Agronomic data analyst
- Cloud engineer
- Product manager, agritech
Regulations and standards
Standards we design for
The rules that shape technology work in this sector, and that we build and staff around.
Privacy and Security Principles for Farm Data
The industry's Core Principles cover data ownership, notice, portability and use limits, and Ag Data Transparent offers a program built on them. We design consent and data-sharing features that follow these principles.
AgGateway ADAPT
ADAPT is an open framework for converting precision agriculture data between formats and systems. We work with it when building import and export pipelines.
ISO 11783 (ISOBUS and ISOXML)
The standard for communication between tractors and implements, with an XML format for task data. We read and write it when integrating machinery data.
OGC and open geospatial standards
Standards for formats and services, such as GeoPackage, WMS and WFS, along with community specifications like STAC for imagery catalogs, keep spatial data portable. We build with them.
FAA Part 107
Commercial drone operations in the US follow Part 107 rules. We design drone imagery workflows with that in mind and leave flight operations to licensed operators.
These are the regulations and standards that shape work in this sector. We design and staff for them. They are not certifications held by Desmata.
Technology
Platforms and technologies in this sector
- QGIS
- Esri ArcGIS
- GDAL
- PostGIS
- GeoPandas
- Sentinel-2 and Landsat
- Google Earth Engine
- MQTT
- LoRaWAN
- AWS IoT Core and Azure IoT Hub
- Apache Spark
- Python
- React Native and Flutter
Services
Services that support this work
Technology
AI & Advanced Analytics
Predictive modeling, NLP and machine learning, and real-time stream processing with Kafka, Spark and Flink.
Technology
Digital Product Engineering
Custom software architecture, full-stack and mobile development, API-first microservices and legacy modernization. Home of RetailGeo Insights.
Technology
Cloud & Infrastructure Modernization
Cloud-native design, infrastructure as code, DevSecOps and CI/CD, secure data platforms and cost-optimized hybrid and multi-cloud architecture.
Advisory
AI Strategy & Consulting
IT strategy and planning, plus AI readiness assessment, workflow automation, data strategy and responsible AI governance.
Talent
IT Staffing & Strategic Resourcing
Specialized recruitment for IT, data, cybersecurity and product roles, with proprietary candidate-matching intelligence and recruiters who have focused on IT since 2012.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Does Desmata have agritech customers?
We list agritech as an industry we serve and staff for, and we do not publish customer results for it on this page. Our geospatial work on RetailGeo Insights, our own product for retailers, uses the same core skills.
Can you work with satellite and drone imagery?
Yes. We build pipelines that select usable scenes, compute vegetation indices and store results per field, using public sources such as Sentinel-2 and Landsat or commercial imagery you license. Drone flights stay with licensed operators.
How do you handle formats from different machinery brands?
We build converters around open standards such as ISOXML and ADAPT where they apply, and write adapters for proprietary exports. The result is one field-level model your product can rely on.
Can you staff people for a seasonal build?
Yes. Contract roles suit work timed around planting and harvest. Tell us the season, skills and team size and a recruiter will confirm what is realistic.
Turn field data into decisions growers can use
Share what data you collect and what you want growers to see. We will propose a pipeline, an app approach and the team to build it.
MBE certified (Minority Business Enterprise)