This article helps you identify the most useful features for your type of activity so you can get the most out of your Weenat app.
How to read this guide
Each section corresponds to a type of farming activity. You will find:
- Recommended sensors — the physical equipment to deploy on your plot
- Useful widgets — the information blocks to display on your plot pages
- Relevant features — the must-haves
Viticulture & Arboriculture (Vineyards & Orchards)
Recommended sensors
- Weather station — temperature, humidity, rainfall: the basis for all plot monitoring
- Leaf wetness sensor — essential for modeling disease risk
- Pyranometer — measures solar radiation, useful for tracking ripening and sunshine accumulation
- Frost sensor — useful for being alerted to late-winter and early-spring frosts during or after bud break
- Anemometer — ideal for spray treatments and for assessing worsening advective frost risk
Useful widgets
- Rainfall accumulation
- ETP (evapotranspiration) accumulation — estimation of water needs
- Growing degree-day accumulation
- Chill hours accumulation
- Leaf wetness hours accumulation — disease risk assessment
- Sunshine hours accumulation
- Crop monitoring and phenological stage tracking
- My irrigations — history and tracking of water applications
- Dew point — indicator of foliar disease risk
- 5-day and 6-hour forecasts — anticipating treatments and harvests
- Weephyt — recommendations on plant-protection treatment windows
- Décitrait — decision support for vine treatments (mildew, powdery mildew, botrytis)
- Crop monitoring — observation of phenological stages
Most relevant features
- "My Farm" page - "Weather" section - Rain, Temperature, Humidity
- "Plot" page - "Weather" section - Custom widgets
- Alerts:
- Frost alert
- Rainfall accumulation alert (leaching)
- Solar radiation accumulation alert
Market Gardening
Recommended sensors
- Weather station — temperature, humidity, rainfall: the basis for all plot monitoring
- Thermometer/hygrometer — monitoring growing conditions under tunnels/greenhouses
- Tensiometer — irrigation management via soil water tension measurement
- Capacitive probe — tracking soil water content across different depths
- Fertigation probe — monitoring conductivity and uptake of fertilizer applications
Useful widgets
- Rainfall accumulation
- ETP accumulation — estimation of water needs
- My irrigations — history and tracking of water applications
- VPD (Vapor Pressure Deficit) — plant water stress
- Dew point — risk of condensation and foliar disease
- 5-day and 6-hour forecasts
- Weephyt — recommendations on plant-protection treatment windows
- Weedriq — irrigation decision support for users equipped with tensiometers
- Irré-lis — available depending on your crop and department (list coming soon)
- Crop monitoring — observation of phenological stages
Most relevant features
- "My Farm" page - "Weather" section - Rain, Temperature, Humidity
- "Plot" page - "Weather" section - Custom widgets
- "Sensor" page - Real-time data and sensor measurement history
- Alerts:
- Rainfall accumulation alert (leaching)
- Solar radiation accumulation alert
- Temperature alert
Field Crops (Row Crops)
Recommended sensors
- Weather station — temperature, humidity, rainfall: the basis for all plot monitoring
- Soil thermometer — tracking temperature at sowing and crop emergence
- Tensiometer — irrigation management via soil water tension measurement
- Anemometer — ideal for spray treatments
Useful widgets
- Rainfall accumulation
- ETP accumulation — estimation of evapotranspiration
- Growing degree-day accumulation — tracking phenological stages (emergence, flowering, maturity)
- Crop monitoring
- Maï'zy — tracking phenological stages and dry-matter targets for silage maize
- Crop monitoring — observation of phenological stages
- Irré-lis — available depending on your crop and department (list coming soon)
Most relevant features
- "My Farm" page - "Weather" section - Rain, Temperature, Humidity
- "Plot" page - "Weather" section - Custom widgets
- "Sensor" page - Real-time data and sensor measurement history
- Alerts:
- Rainfall accumulation alert (leaching)
- Solar radiation accumulation alert
- Growing degree-day accumulation alert
- Soil temperature alert
Mixed Crop-Livestock Farming
Recommended sensors
- Weather station — temperature, humidity, rainfall: the basis for all plot monitoring
- Thermometer/hygrometer — monitoring conditions in livestock buildings
- Tensiometer — water tension measurement on forage crops
Useful widgets
- THI (Temperature Humidity Index) — thermal comfort index for animals
- Rainfall accumulation — pasture and crop management
- ETP accumulation — water balance for forage crops
- Growing degree-day accumulation — crop phenological tracking, pasture nitrogen management
- 5-day forecasts — anticipating fieldwork (haymaking, silage)
- Crop monitoring — monitoring of forage and associated crops
Most relevant features
- "My Farm" page - "Weather" section - Rain, Temperature, Humidity // "Irrigation" section - Tensiometry
- "Plot" page - "Weather" section - Custom widgets
- "Sensor" page - Real-time data and sensor measurement history
- Alerts:
- Rainfall accumulation alert for pasture management
- Growing degree-day accumulation alert
- Soil temperature alert
- Temperature and/or humidity alert
- THI alert
Nurseries / Horticulture
Recommended sensors
- Weather station — temperature, humidity, rainfall: the basis for all plot monitoring
- Thermometer/hygrometer — conditions at plant and young-plant level under greenhouse/tunnel
- Leaf wetness sensor — risk of foliar disease on young plants
- Pyranometer — measures the light load received by plants
- PAR sensor — measures the photosynthetically active spectrum received by plants
Useful widgets
- Rainfall accumulation
- ETP accumulation — irrigation management
- Dew point — risk of condensation and disease
- VPD — water stress and evaporation conditions
- Chill hours accumulation — tracking vernalization needs
- 5-day and 6-hour forecasts
- Crop monitoring — monitoring of batches and stages
Solar (Photovoltaic)
Recommended sensors
- Pyranometer — direct measurement of radiation incident on the panels
Useful widgets
- Solar radiation — real-time sunshine monitoring
- Sunshine hours accumulation — cumulative productivity over the period
- 5-day forecasts — anticipating production