remote rain gauge
rain gauge electronic
rain gauge australia
remote rain gauge
rain gauge electronic
rain gauge australia
remote rain gauge
rain gauge electronic
rain gauge australia

Rain Gauge

$399.00 AUD
$399.00 AUD
Tax included.

The Farmo Rain Gauge provides real-time, hyper-local rainfall data (measured in 1mm increments) directly to your phone, allowing you to monitor weather patterns across your entire property. Make more informed decisions on spraying, sowing, and stock movements without leaving the house. Don't rely on distant or unreliable BOM data to check rain levels. 
Cellular NB-IoT
IP67 Waterproof
1+ Year Life (User Replaceable)
Email & SMS Notifications

Weather station data from the nearest BOM station is rarely accurate for your specific paddocks. The Farmo Rain Gauge is a robust sensor designed for hyper-local precision. Our patented single-spoon tipping design avoids the wear drift common in dual-spoon gauges, ensuring data readings stay accurate over time. The device uses long-range NB-IoT/Cat-M1 connectivity to transmit data from remote locations where standard mobile signals are weak. The rain gauge measures rainfall in 1mm increments and updates to your live feed every 15 minutes, giving you a live look at how much moisture is actually hitting the ground. 

Data Includes:

  • Rain Today (Running total for the day)
  • Rain This Month
  • Rain This Month versus closest BOM 30 year average
  • Rain This Year
  • Rain (Incremental increase throughout the day)

Alerts

  • Rain Today

Simply mount the rain gauge to a level post in a clear, open area using the included bracket. Once activated in the Farmo App, the internal tipping bucket mechanism begins measuring rainfall in 1mm increments. Data is transmitted to the Farmo App, where it is aggregated into daily, weekly, and monthly totals, providing you with comprehensive data across your property. The Farmo App also allows you to compare your rainfall against official long-term rainfall average records in your area. The Farmo App will find the nearest official weather station based on your rain gauge's location, giving you a reliable benchmark to measure your data against long-term trends.

Assembly Instructions
Product dimensions 15cm Height x 16cm Width x 15cm Depth
Sensor Tipping bucket, pulse counter
Connectivity Cellular (NB-IoT/Cat-M1)
Network coverage required Yes. Telstra (default), Optus and International
Waterproof IP67
Battery type LiSoCl2 7aH
Battery lifespan More than 1 year
Subscription required Yes
Resolution 1 mm (Max rain 12mm/min)
Accuracy +/- 5 %

Farmo devices are covered by a 12 month back-to-base warranty. After the standard warranty period expires we apply a pro-rata warranty up to 24 months.

Tipping spoon rain gauges are known as the most accurate of rain measuring devices, but they can be affected if spiders or ants get inside and build webs or nests. It depends on the location and the time of the year, but you should check every few months and apply preventive measures if required. Some customers use insect deterrent sprays effectively.

How Our Customers Use Farmo to Stay Ahead

Improve on data from a distant BOM station

Check exactly how many millimetres fell at a specific location on your property from your phone. Rainfall can vary a lot across properties and even between paddocks, so farmers use on-farm rain gauges to see what actually fell at their own site.

Improve Spraying Decisions

Check your paddock rain data to see if conditions are right for spraying. In orchards and vineyards, rainfall is a key trigger for many disease events. Remote automatic gauges are used as part of weather monitoring to assess infection risk and respond sooner.

Compare Data & Plan better

Compare your seasonal rain fall to the official long term average from the nearest BOM station and use these in sights to make earlier decisions around stocking rates, supplementary feeding, containment and selling stock.

Link to pump control and Irrigation scheduling

Use the Farmo App to link your rain data to a Farmo IoT Switch for irrigation or remote pump control. Automatic rain gauges help irrigators avoid watering after useful rain, fine-tune irrigation timing, and improve water-use efficiency.

$10 per device / month (ex GST)

farmo app subscription

Purchase your device once, then choose a monthly subscription per device for connectivity, data, alerts, and app access. Each plan includes the Farmo App, access for up to 5 users, all connectivity fees, unlimited email alerts, 20 SMS alerts per device each month, scheduled reports, and data downloads. 

The Farmo App Experience

Two rain gauge readings displayed on a light blue background

Live Rainfall Visibility

View your rainfall data in a single, unified feed. Compare daily, weekly, monthly and yearly totals to better understand your land's long-term performance.

Phone screen displaying a notification from 'Farmo' about water level meter status.

Real Time Alerts

Set custom thresholds to notify your whole team. Get an SMS or email alert when rainfall hits a certain target.

Bar chart comparing rain monthly mm for Tuck Rain Gauge and Rocklands Reservoir, VIC, AU over the last 12 months.

Seasonal Benchmarking

Compare your current season’s rainfall against historical data and benchmark your data against the nearest official weather station. 

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FAQs

While the device typically reports status updates every few hours to save battery, it “wakes up” when it is raining, reporting every 15 minutes in 1mm increments. When it is not raining, the device sends a daily “heartbeat” to confirm it is operating.

No.  The unit has a pre-installed NB-IoT/Cat-M1 SIM card. It operates on the same long-range cellular towers used by your mobile phone, but with much better penetration. If you have even a basic mobile signal at the site, the device will connect.

No, the rain gauge will keep counting even when there is no connection. Once the connection resumes, the rainfall total will be updated on the next message sent.

The Farmo App allows you to compare your rainfall against official long term rainfall average records in your area. The Farmo App will find the nearest official weather station based on your rain gauge's location, giving you a reliable benchmark to measure your data against long-term trends.

Trusted by Customers

5.00
The Rain Gauge has been working well ..we've got a property that's 150km from our home block and it lets us know if we need to head out there when there's been a big storm or when we have had rain we might not need to rush out there cause we know the stock will be fine. We've got it away from our manual rain gauge so you can see a bit of variability in the rainfall over the place, and it helps with planting and all those sorts of things. It's been a good product.
Jock Orange NSW
5.00
I had a real problem getting accurate and up to date rain data on our farm in far east Gippsland when I spend most of the time in Melbourne. The rain gauge through Farmo solved the problem and the support and backup with questions was great.
Mick Melbourne VIC
5.00
Very happy with the Farmo Rain Gauge. Got 3 of these now, one on each of our properties. Tracks rainfall well and easy to see all the data in the Farmo App.
Dustin Claremont WA
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