iLeaf weather stations evolved from a necessity and a requirement for modern day farming to incorporate older software. Furthermore this new technology was required to a complete seamless integration of raw weather data and weather predictions by incorporation existing models. Previous Agrisoft weather station versions lacked in this regard as it only utilized weather data until last download or on a weekly basis.


Recent developments in GPRS technology and web-based software have made it possible to access real-time weather data forecasting. Weather stations transmit data hourly to a central cloud server. Here it is processed in forecasting models and presented as recommendations in the form of web pages, accessible by iLeaf.