Investing in Outcomes
We have journeyed from the personal story behind GrowGood to the way its Blueprints learn to speak the language of your farm. Now, we arrive at the most crucial part of our conversation: the future we can grow together. This is a vision that extends beyond the farm gate, connecting our individual efforts into a powerful, collective force for regeneration. This isn’t just about building a better tool. It’s about building the infrastructure for a new kind of economy—an economy that invests in outcomes, not just outputs.
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Part 4: A Cooperative Future for Public LoRaWAN
The dream of a global, public LoRaWAN network is a powerful one. While private LoRaWAN networks thrive for specific industrial and agricultural applications, the vision of a ubiquitous, low-cost network for tracking, sensing, and connecting the physical world remains just out of reach. We’ve seen two major attempts to build this future, each a fork in the road leading to a dead end. First came The Things Network (TTN), a noble, grassroots effort built on altruism. It did an admirable job, proving the power of a community-built network. But without a sustainable incentive model, it relied on the goodwill of gateway operators, a foundation that proved too fragile for global scale.
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Growing Data Foundation
Supporting Open Solutions for Social Good The Growing Data Foundation (GDF) is a volunteer-based, not-for-profit organisation dedicated to fostering open projects and systems for community improvement and social good. Since its establishment in 2015, the GDF has been a key supporter of the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem in South Australia, promoting economic, environmental, and social sustainability through technology. SEIN’s Collaboration At SEIN, we believe in the power of open technology and community-driven initiatives. We are excited to partner with the Growing Data Foundation, lending our technical expertise to several of their innovative environmental sensing projects.
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Open Source Grow Planning: GrowGood
For too long, farm management software has been designed for an industrial mindset. It’s often rigid, expensive, and forces growers into a generic mould that ignores the diverse, living reality of regenerative agriculture. These tools are built on a philosophy of extraction, not regeneration, making it impossible to capture the true story of your farm—the story of soil being built, biodiversity returning, and ecological health being restored. This frustration was the seed from which GrowGood sprouted. GrowGood is our answer to this challenge. It is not another product for sale, but a digital commons resource we are building with and for the regenerative farming community. It is a free, open-source platform designed to finally give growers a tool that speaks their language.
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The Things Network South Australia
In a world dominated by centralised, corporate-owned networks, what if we could build our own? What if the infrastructure for the Internet of Things (IoT)—the very network that connects our sensors to the digital world—was owned and operated by the community it serves? This isn’t a hypothetical question. This is the reality of The Things Network (TTN), and it represents the very essence of the ‘Sense’ philosophy at the heart of SEIN.
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