Water Monitoring for Oyster Farmers
A single storm can flush your lease with freshwater in hours. A warm August night can push Vibrio risk past the limit. ShellSense monitors your lease around the clock and texts you before conditions turn — so you protect your crop, your customers, and your harvest window.
Alert window for dangerous conditions
Works miles from shore — no WiFi, no cell signal
Focused on coastal NC farmers first
Why ShellSense
Heavy rain flushes leases fast — and triggers DMF closures that can last days. Know the moment salinity drops and how fast it's trending back. Stop driving to the boat ramp to find out conditions aren't right.
When water hits 24°C, Vibrio vulnificus risk spikes. One tainted harvest can mean illness reports, a suspended lease, and real liability. ShellSense watches your water temp around the clock and alerts you before you're in the danger zone.
Your lease is miles offshore and nowhere near a signal. ShellSense uses long-range radio to reach the cloud from deep in the sound — every 30 minutes, on a 5-year battery. No cell plan, no infrastructure, nothing to maintain.
Don't drive to the boat ramp to find out conditions are bad. When something crosses your threshold, you get a text — before you launch. No alert means you're good. Set it once, reply to acknowledge, and get back to farming.
Every reading is timestamped, stored, and exportable. When the DMF has questions, you have answers. When your lease comes up for renewal, you have data. If a storm or closure event damages your crop, you have documented proof for an insurance claim — automatically.
Log every harvest from your phone — weight, date, and water conditions filled in automatically from your sensor. When a storm or closure event damages your crop, ShellSense generates your USDA crop insurance claim report with the supporting data already attached.
The system
We put a weatherproof sensor node in your growing area — on a float or stake. No digging, no wiring, no power hookup. We handle the installation.
Salinity, temperature, water level — taken automatically and sent to the cloud from miles offshore. No cellular bill, no WiFi, no check-ins required from you.
ShellSense checks every reading against your thresholds. Something crosses the line — you get a text. No alert means you're good. That's the whole system.
Every reading stored and searchable in your account. See how your lease behaves across storms, seasons, and tides. Export anytime for compliance or insurance.
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