After the first time, it uses very little. Owari Agro stores its screens on your phone, so it opens almost instantly every time, and from your farm's data it only downloads what changed; the heaviest download is the first one, when offline mode is installed.
What stays stored on the phone
- The screens. Each screen's files are saved the first time and then open from the phone, without requesting them from the internet again.
- Ahead of time. During your first session with internet, the screens your user has access to are downloaded one at a time, without getting in the way of what you're doing.
- Your data. The offline mode keeps a mirror copy of your farm's data on the device (the «mirror table»), so looking things up doesn't mean downloading them every time.
You can also install it as an app on your home screen: see which devices it works on.
What travels over the network afterwards
- Only the changes. Your farm's copy is updated with what's new; it isn't downloaded in full again. If nothing changed, the check is tiny.
- Only while the app is on screen. The periodic check runs every few minutes while you have it open on screen; in the background it doesn't spend data on it.
- What you record, when it uploads, and the app's usage analytics, which are sent in small batches after your records.
What does use more data
- The first installation of offline mode: do it on wifi if you can.
- When a new version of the app comes out, the phone downloads the screens again once.
- Photos and documents, such as soil tests or fertilization cycle photos, aren't stored on the phone: they download every time you open them.
- The Owari Assistant, the built-in artificial intelligence agent, and Excel or PDF report downloads use the network every time.
With slow or patchy signal
If the connection drops halfway, you keep working with the local copy and what you saved uploads by itself later, in order (how it syncs). You don't need to wait for good signal to record the day.
Exact data usage depends on the size of your farm (how many plots, employees and records you have), so we don't publish a fixed figure.