Introduction
Producing premium specialty mushrooms requires tight environmental control. Even small changes in humidity or carbon dioxide can impact quality, shelf life, and yield.
To gain greater visibility and confidence across its operation, Fungaia partnered with Microclimates to unify environmental monitoring, automation, and alerts into a single platform.
Today, the team can monitor its farm remotely, receive instant notifications when conditions change, and make data-driven decisions backed by historical trends.
About Fungaia Farm
Founded by Levon Durr, Fungaia Farm is a specialty mushroom producer in Humboldt County, California, cultivating gourmet and medicinal mushrooms while supporting sustainable growing practices through education, mushroom spawn, and mycology services.
Driven by a commitment to innovation, Fungaia partnered with Microclimates to modernize environmental monitoring, improve operational visibility, and create a scalable foundation for future growth.
The Challenge
Producing premium specialty mushrooms requires precise environmental control. Even small changes in humidity, carbon dioxide (CO₂), temperature, or fresh air exchange can affect crop quality, consistency, and shelf life.
Before partnering with Microclimates, Fungaia relied on independent controllers and environmental devices that operated separately. Without a unified view of the farm, it was difficult to monitor conditions, identify issues quickly, or respond before they affected production.
Fungaia was looking for a solution that could:
- Improve visibility across the operation
- Better manage humidity and CO₂ levels
- Provide remote monitoring and automated alerts
- Centralize environmental data in one platform
- Build a scalable foundation for future automation
Rather than adding another controller, Fungaia wanted a smarter way to monitor, understand, and manage its growing environments.
The Solution
Microclimates unified Fungaia's environmental monitoring, controls, and automation into a single platform by combining wired instrumentation with wireless LoRaWAN technology.
The deployment included climate monitoring, automated environmental controls, equipment monitoring, remote dashboards, historical data, real-time alerts, weather monitoring, and camera integration.
With all environmental information available in one place, Fungaia can now monitor conditions in real time, receive instant notifications when issues arise, and make faster, data-driven decisions with confidence.
One Dashboard. Complete Visibility.
Instead of monitoring multiple independent systems, Fungaia now has a single dashboard that provides real-time visibility into every critical environmental condition. Climate, equipment, weather, historical trends, and alerts are all available in one place—helping the team quickly understand what's happening across the farm and respond before issues impact production.
From Disconnected Systems to Environmental Intelligence
The implementation wasn't simply about adding sensors—it transformed how Fungaia manages its growing environments.
| Before Microclimates | With Microclimates |
| Separate environmental systems | One connected monitoring and automation platform |
| Reactive problem solving | Proactive environmental management |
| No automated alerts | Instant notifications for equipment and environmental changes |
| Limited visibility across the operation | Complete operational awareness |
| Guesswork and isolated data | Real-time insights and historical trends |
| Uncertainty | Confidence |
The Impact
By unifying environmental monitoring, controls, historical data, and automated alerts into a single platform, Fungaia transformed the way it manages its growing environments. The result is greater operational visibility, faster response times, and more confident, data-driven decision-making.
| 🌡️ Better Env. Control | 🚨 Instant Alerts | 📈 Historical Data |
| Automated humidity and CO₂ control helped create healthier mushrooms, improved consistency, and reduced environmental variability. | Receive immediate alerts for equipment failures, breaker trips, or changing environmental conditions—before crops are affected. | Historical environmental data makes it easier to identify trends, troubleshoot issues, and continuously optimize production. |
| 📱 Remote Visibility | 🧠 Data-Driven Decisions | ❤️ Peace of Mind |
| Monitor environmental conditions, equipment, weather, and cameras from anywhere through a single dashboard. | Make faster, more informed decisions using real-time and historical environmental data instead of guesswork. | 10/10 confidence after implementation. Continuous monitoring and instant alerts provide confidence whether on-site or away from the farm. |
"Before Microclimates, our environmental systems operated independently, making it difficult to see what was happening across the farm. Today we have one platform for monitoring, controls, historical data, and alerts, giving us much greater visibility and confidence in managing our operation."
— Levon Durr, Founder, Fungaia Farm
Independent Validation
Fungaia's deployment contributed to the CalNEXT Smart Controls Field Evaluation, an independent study examining the benefits of integrated environmental monitoring and automation in controlled environment agriculture. The research supports the value of connected environmental systems for improving operational visibility, enabling data-driven decisions, and reducing production risk.
Looking Ahead
With a unified environmental platform now in place, Fungaia can continue expanding its monitoring and automation as its operation grows. New sensors, controls, and applications can be added without replacing existing infrastructure, providing a scalable foundation for future innovation. .
About Microclimates
Microclimates provides environmental monitoring and automation solutions for controlled environment agriculture. By combining wired and wireless LoRaWAN technologies into one platform, growers gain real-time visibility into climate, irrigation, energy, weather, and equipment performance, enabling faster decisions and more consistent production.
Learn more at: www.microclimates.com