The problem
Four systems. None of them talk.
It's 2 a.m. The owner's phone buzzes. A glitch, or a break-in? They drive in and log into four systems to find out. Last week a clogged emitter killed a row. Nobody saw it until trim day.
Fragmentation
Cameras, sensors, controllers, compliance, alarms. Four to six vendors, nothing integrated. The head grower reconciles it in spreadsheets.
Preventable loss
Undetected drift, irrigation faults, and disease are the biggest preventable loss in the room. They are caught late because no one watches every plant.
Data off-site
Cannabis is federally illegal. Every cloud vendor is one more place your footage and your records live somewhere you don't control.
The product
One box. Four jobs.
Grow Monitor is a local appliance plus apps for the owner and the head grower. It replaces a stack of vendors with one system, and makes them talk to each other.
The appliance — records, monitors, controls, and reports, on-site.
Secure
24/7 compliant recording. 90-day local retention in California, 40 in Colorado. Intrusion and after-hours alerts.
Monitor
Per-plant and per-zone health. Growth and stress tracking. A scouting queue that tells the grower where to look today.
Control
Local climate, CO2, lighting, and irrigation. Keeps running on the last good recipe through an outage.
Comply
METRC with an offline queue. One-click audit export of records and the matched video that proves them.
Two ways to run it
Start with tracking. Add security when you're ready.
Same appliance, two models. The grower can start with tracking alone; the owner adds the security layer the state requires anyway — and only then do you get video sealed to the tag.
Model 01 — Track
Tracking
Per-plant computer-vision monitoring, climate and irrigation control, and METRC compliance — all on the local box. For the head grower who wants every plant watched and the room run on-site, through any outage.
watch · control · comply
Model 02 — Track + Secure
Tracking + Security
Everything in Tracking, plus the state-mandated surveillance layer: NDAA cameras, 24/7 compliant recording and local retention, intrusion and after-hours alerts — and chain-of-custody video bound to every METRC tag. For the owner and the grower together.
watch · control · comply · secure · prove
Only the security model owns the camera and the tag — so it's the only one that can prove a plant's whole life on video.
How you deploy it
Cloud, on-site, or the best of both.
Pick where it runs. Start affordable in the cloud, go fully on-site for total data sovereignty, or run hybrid — local-first, with the cloud layered on for remote access and backup.
Cloud · most affordable
Cloud
Lowest upfront, simple monthly, fastest to stand up. Runs in the cloud like the tools growers already know. Best for cost-sensitive and single-room sites getting started.
lower cost · remote by default
Hybrid · best of both
Hybrid
The box runs everything locally and keeps working through an outage; the cloud is layered on for remote access, backup, and multi-site rollup. You choose what leaves the building.
local-first · cloud convenience
On-site · max sovereignty
Fully on-site
Everything stays local; only the compliance data the state requires ever leaves. A subpoena goes to you, not a vendor's cloud. Offline-first, cloud-optional, survives any outage.
data sovereignty · survives outages
Two models × three ways to deploy. Same appliance and apps — you choose what it does and where it runs.