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There are some iot specific cell plans like Hologram or CheerIoT

You can check them out! Report if you find something interesting

@zboblamont thank you very much for your reply. You have my blessing to became into the new Ethan Hunt haha.

The main issue because I can not place everything into a pole is because the buried box is in the middle of the backyard so, having a pole is quite unsightly...

However, do you think that with a 433mHz radio, or with a 869mHz radio which is a permitted frequency in Europe I will reach to the node? I was thinking in the RFM69 or the RFM95

Regarding the RTC it is a beautiful idea. However, I am confused. If I sleep the node, can it still be able to communicate with the gateway? I suppose that I will have to get the node up once in a while to check.

But, suppose that the GW sends a new alarm schedule to the node when the node is sleeping, will the message reach?

@skywatch ok! To keep it in mind, when I say that the node is buried, in fact it is inside a box which is buried...

I totally agree with you in the sense that if the antennas are buried, I would not be able to communicate with anything.

Besides, I would try to put the node out of the buried box somewhere. A good idea is to bury a cable which connect the valves. In this way I will be able to place a pole in other, more appropriate places.

Regarding the rain, where I live, is very rainy. I live in the basque country, north of spain. And about temperatures, I have to say that we could reach -10 during winter, it can be covered with snow also, and in during summer the temperatures reach 35 degrees at most...

Thank you! I will buy rf69 modules to give it a try. I am also planning to contract Internet service since the basque government is installing optical fiber in the small villages like mine.

My tomatoes are going ti be the most expensive ones in the entire country for sure, but anyway, I am learning a lot