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Trellis, an Atlanta-based startup founded by aerospace engineers Liz Buchen and Adam Snow, uses affordable IoT soil moisture sensors to help farmers optimize irrigation, reduce water usage, and increase crop yields. The platform transmits real-time moisture data wirelessly to a cloud dashboard and is expanding to include weather stations, rain gauges, and AI-driven crop timing across farms in 24 states.
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Summary
Trellis, an Atlanta-based startup founded by aerospace engineers Liz Buchen and Adam Snow, uses affordable IoT soil moisture sensors to help farmers optimize irrigation, reduce water usage, and increase crop yields. The platform transmits real-time moisture data wirelessly to a cloud dashboard and is expanding to include weather stations, rain gauges, and AI-driven crop timing across farms in 24 states.
Tags
precision-agriculture · iot · water-conservation · soil-moisture-sensors · agtech · startup · irrigation
Key entities
Liz Buchen (person, 0.98) · Adam Snow (person, 0.98) · Muriel Vega (person, 0.85) · Trellis (organization, 0.97) · Internet of Things (IoT) (technology, 0.95) · precision agriculture (concept, 0.9) · soil moisture sensing (concept, 0.92) · University of Georgia (organization, 0.9) · Atlanta (location, 0.93) · Hypepotamus (organization, 0.8)
Classification
analysis · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 9 Jul 2026