The Award Recognizes the Technologies and Companies Advancing Business Communications

SALT LAKE CITY—November 12, 2026—Monnit announced today that TMC has named its Greenhouse Monitoring & Automation Solution and work with Smart Farm Innovations with the 2026 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award presented by INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.

The award highlights customer success stories that demonstrate real-world deployments, performance gains, and business outcomes. It recognizes and honors Monnit for developing and delivering cloud-based services and advanced IP communications that help organizations improve connectivity, productivity, customer engagement, and operational efficiency.

You can read about Monnit's application of its Greenhouse Monitoring & Automation Solution for Smart Farm Innovations customers in our case study, Automate and Optimize Farm Facility Ventilation with Wireless Sensors and Controls.

"Our work with Smart Farm Innovations to monitor temperature and humidity and control farm facility ventilation is a perfect example of our wireless IoT sensor solutions' ability to automate systems, track critical conditions, reduce equipment costs, and boost overall efficiency in a variety of operations," said Monnit Founder and CEO Brad Walters. "It's exciting to share in our partners' and customers' successes. We're grateful to be honored by TMC and INTERNET TELEPHONY."

"Congratulations to Monnit for being honored with a 2026 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award for innovation in IP communications," said Rich Tehrani, CEO of TMC. "The Monnit Greenhouse Monitoring & Automation Solution has demonstrated outstanding quality and has delivered exceptional, measurable, tangible results for its users."

How Smart Farm Innovations and Monnit Help Small Farms Reduce Costs and Automate Greenhouse Operations

Small farms often operate with limited labor, tight budgets, and little time to manually manage greenhouse climate conditions. For many growers, the high cost and complexity of traditional environmental controllers make automation seem out of reach, leaving ventilation systems, fans, and roll-up curtains to be adjusted manually throughout the day.

To solve this challenge, Smart Farm Innovations, a Monnit partner based in South Glens Falls, NY, developed an affordable Automated Environmental Controller System with Monnit Integration.

The solution combines Monnit ALTA^® Wireless Temperature and Humidity Sensors, ALTA 10 Amp Wireless Control Units, ALTA IoT or Ethernet Gateways, and iMonnit™ Cloud Monitoring Software to automatically monitor greenhouse conditions, control ventilation equipment, and deliver real-time alerts via text, email, or phone call. Farmers can remotely monitor and manage greenhouse operations from virtually anywhere using a smartphone or computer.

The automated system continuously monitors temperature and humidity at crop level and intelligently stages fans, vents, and roll-up curtain systems to maintain optimal growing conditions. The solution reduces manual labor, improves crop protection, simplifies greenhouse management, and provides reliable remote visibility into critical environmental conditions while requiring far less technical expertise than traditional greenhouse controllers.

The Result: Smart Farm Innovations delivers a greenhouse automation solution that costs more than 50% less than the least expensive traditional environmental controllers while providing additional remote monitoring, alerting, and automation capabilities. Farmers benefit from lower equipment costs, reduced labor, improved crop protection, greater operational efficiency, and the flexibility to manage greenhouse operations from virtually anywhere.

About Monnit Corporation

The origin story of the Internet of Things (IoT) begins with Monnit. Before our inception in 2010, we were already at the forefront of embedding technology into machines and devices to enable them to talk and deliver valuable data to business leaders. Monnit Remote Monitoring Solutions for nearly any industry use case have delivered 72B+ data points in 130+ countries for 90K+ customers. Monnit's 80+ long-range IoT sensors remotely monitor many conditions such as temperature, light, humidity, water, vibration, pressure, and more. You can analyze data using iMonnit cloud software and get alerts via email, text, push notification, or call when our sensors detect a change you should know.

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