For Italian growers
From the vineyards of Piedmont to the citrus of Sicily, Italian farms face the same squeeze: less water, hotter summers, and soils that change from one field to the next. SoilSense tells you exactly when each field needs water — so you irrigate on evidence, not on the calendar.
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67 farms across Italy
Drought is no longer an occasional bad year. The Po Valley — the breadbasket that feeds much of the country's processing tomatoes, maize, and rice — has lurched through its driest seasons on record, and consortia across the south now hand growers firm caps on how much water they may draw. When the volume is fixed, the only variable left is how well you spend it.
Italian fields are anything but uniform. Heavy clay in Emilia-Romagna behaves nothing like the sandy coastal soils of Puglia or the volcanic ground around Etna — and even neighbouring plots on the same farm dry down at different rates. Irrigating every zone on the same schedule wastes water on some and starves others.
Soil moisture sensors close that gap. Instead of guessing from the weather or the look of the leaves, you see what the root zone is actually holding, field by field — and decide from there. That is the entire job SoilSense is built to do.
How SoilSense works
A wireless, solar-powered datalogger reads soil moisture right at the root zone and sends it straight to the SoilSense app — so you can see exactly how much water each field holds, and act before stress sets in.
The setup
The SoilSense app
The same data, live on your computer, tablet and phone — in Italian. Always available from everywhere you are.
No agronomist needed
When a field needs your attention, SoilSense sends a plain-language alert to your phone — so you know whether to water, wait, or ease off, at a glance.
One of your sensors has dropped below the safe soil-moisture range.
Stressed
Too dry — water now
Getting dry
Plan to irrigate soon
Just right
Ideal soil moisture
Too wet
Ease off the water
Whatever you grow, the question is the same: is there enough water in the root zone right now — and where is the next litre best spent? Here is how that plays out across Italy's main crops.
Quality depends on controlled water stress at the right moment — too much and the fruit dilutes, too little and the vine shuts down.
Watch the root zone through veraison and ripening so you can apply deficit irrigation deliberately, not by guesswork.
Often dry-farmed or run on minimal water across large, undulating groves where conditions vary widely from block to block.
A few sensors in representative zones show which blocks truly need the limited water you have, and which can wait.
High, consistent demand through fruit set and fill — and increasingly tight allocations across the Po Valley and the south.
Hold the root zone in the ideal band to protect yield and Brix while staying inside your water budget.
Deep, perennial roots and high-value trees where both over- and under-watering carry a cost that compounds year over year.
Track moisture at multiple depths to match irrigation to how the trees actually root, and avoid waterlogging in heavy ground.
Shallow roots and fast cycles mean a missed irrigation shows up in the crop within days.
High-frequency readings and instant alerts catch a drying field before the plants feel it.
Unforgiving of both drought and waterlogging — the wettest and driest extremes both damage the crop.
Keep moisture inside a narrow safe band with continuous data instead of reacting after the damage is visible.
From the Alpine north to the islands, Italian farms are already irrigating on real soil data. Each dot is one farm; hover to see its region and the crops grown there. Positions are approximate — exact farm locations stay private.
Crops we monitor
Each dot is a SoilSense farm, placed approximately to keep exact locations private.
Three operations, three very different problems — and the same decision to irrigate on data.
Vegetable farmsAgribo · Quartu Sant'Elena, Sardinia, Italy
Vegetable farmsAgricola Schianchi · Italy
MunicipalitiesItalian municipalities (Ambito × SoilSense) · Italy
Plenty of sensors measure moisture. The difference is whether the whole system survives an Italian field — and whether you can actually run it.
Italian soils are often fine-textured and hard on sensors. SoilSense was independently tested on Vertisol clay and performed within its accuracy spec — exactly the soils that defeat cheaper probes.
The sensors auto-calibrate to the soil they sit in. No lab samples, no agronomist on staff, no manual tuning per field.
Solar-powered and cellular (NB-IoT / LTE-M with 2G fallback) — no Wi-Fi, no mains power, and it keeps running for months without sun.
The platform is in Italian, and so is the person who answers. Giuseppe and the team support Italian growers directly, on an Italian number.
Independent research on sensor-guided irrigation reports water savings of up to 45% and yield gains of up to 25% versus watering by guesswork.
Start with a 60-day risk-free trial and a full refund if it doesn't earn its place — see how it reads your own soils before you buy.
Accuracy claims are backed by independent third-party testing, not our own lab. Read the AgrifoodTEF & University of Córdoba validation.
Your point of contact
When you reach out to SoilSense from Italy, you don't get a chatbot or a ticket queue — you get Giuseppe. He's Italian, he knows Italian farming, and he genuinely enjoys helping growers get this right.
He'll talk through your crops, your soils, and your water situation in plain Italian, help you place the sensors where they'll actually tell you something, and stay reachable long after the boxes arrive. No jargon, no pressure — just someone on your side who wants the system to pay off for you.
Giuseppe Geresia — Head of Sales — Italy
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Funding
Italy's CAP Strategic Plan rewards precision-agriculture practices, and several regional measures (such as the SRA24/ACA24 precision-agriculture payment) can support soil monitoring and decision-support tools. Worth checking before you buy.
See the Italian precision-agriculture grantThe things growers want to know before they decide.
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