ShambAssist is an IoT and AI platform built for African agriculture — precision monitoring, predictive analytics, and intelligent automation that turn raw soil into measured progress.
Soil moisture · zone a
▲ 4.2% vs. yesterday
▼ 0.3
▲ 0.4
▲ 1.2
Irrigation · zone a
Pump running · cycle 3 of 5
Alert · Zone A
Soil moisture optimal — irrigation cycle complete.
just now
crop health
Every metric below comes from active deployments — not projections. We instrument farms; the data tells the rest.
Farmers reached
direct and indirect, across cooperatives
Emissions reduced
via climate-smart practices
Runoff prevented
optimized fertilizer use
Water saved
via predictive irrigation
ShambAssist is a product of Spiderbit Ltd, founded in Kigali by agricultural technologists who refused to accept that precision agriculture was a privilege of the global north.
We design our hardware for African conditions — variable power, intermittent networks, real heat, real dust. We design our software for the farmer who is also the operator, the agronomist, the dispatcher, the bookkeeper.
To democratise agricultural technology — accessible, data-driven tools that lift productivity, sustainability, and profitability.
A continent where every farmer, regardless of scale, has access to advanced agricultural technology and the resource clarity it brings.
From the open field to a sealed greenhouse to a poultry house at scale, our hardware and software meet the operation where it lives.
Comprehensive monitoring and automation for open-field operations, hardened for variable conditions and intermittent power.
High-precision control for greenhouses, vertical farms, and CEA. We close the loop on every environmental variable.
Welfare and efficiency for poultry houses — flock health, ambient air, feeding cadence, all visible in one place.
Two minutes of the platform doing its job in the field.
Industrial-grade sensors, calibrated annually, telemetering at the cadence your operation needs.
Ambient and soil temperature with high accuracy across the full agricultural range.
Continuous relative humidity to prevent disease pressure and balance transpiration.
Photometric measurement to optimise photosynthesis windows and supplemental lighting.
Carbon-dioxide concentration for enrichment management in controlled environments.
Multi-depth volumetric moisture for layered irrigation and water-savings analytics.
Real-time pH for nutrient availability decisions and amendment scheduling.
Electrical conductivity as a proxy for soluble salts and fertiliser load.
Nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium for targeted fertiliser strategies.
NH₃ detection in livestock housing and zones with intensive nitrogen application.
Sensors are the easy part. The hard part is what happens after. ShambAssist threads readings, rules, and remote control into something that actually runs.
Irrigation, climate, lighting, fertigation — connected through a single platform with open APIs and a documented integration surface.
Web and mobile apps that work on patchy networks. Decisions taken from the homestead apply to a station 400 metres away.
Author automation in plain language: when soil moisture drops below 22% in Zone B for 30 minutes, run irrigation cycle 3.
Field reports from the operators we work with most closely.
“The real-time monitoring has completely transformed how we manage our seed-potato production. We catch issues before they become problems — saving both time and money.”
Emmanuel Niyonkuru
Seed Potato Fund of Musanze
Outcome
+40%
seed quality improvement
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