Whether you're protecting a vast wildlife reserve, managing a farm, keeping livestock safe, or securing a perimeter, electric fences have become one of the most effective tools available. They keep animals in and unwanted visitors, human or otherwise, firmly out. This while staying remarkably safe: these fences are engineered to deliver very low current, even as they operate with pulses in the kilovolts.
But anyone who has worked with electric fences knows they come with a frustrating blind spot: they fail silently. A short circuit from a bad connection, overgrown vegetation making contact with the wire, excessive rain, or deliberate tampering can all bring a fence down, and you may not know for hours, or even days. The consequences range from escaped livestock to poaching and theft, depending on the application.
Overgrown vegetation pressing against fence wires creates a slow short circuit that drains voltage along the line, often without any obvious sign of failure.
Photo by Carl Tronders
Enter smart fence monitoring
This is where fence monitoring technology makes a real difference. Smart sensors allow you to remotely read voltage levels along your electric fence in real time, and send immediate alerts the moment voltage drops below a set threshold. This covers both sudden failures like a fence cut overnight or a tree blown down in a storm, and the slow, gradual degradation that often goes unnoticed until it's too late. Either way, you can react fast and step in before more damage is done.
Why the Safora Fence Shield?
We built the Fence Shield with two things in mind: reliability and simplicity. It should work wherever you need it, and it shouldn't need you to think twice about it.
The Fence Shield uses LoRaWAN connectivity, which means it operates independently of mobile networks, ideal for remote farms and protected areas with no signal. It's compatible with a wide range of energizers, runs on solar power, and is designed to be installed once and left alone. And when something does go wrong, you'll know within a minute: our devices are built to deliver alerts fast, so response times stay short.
The Safora Fence Shield clips onto your fence line and reports voltage changes over LoRaWAN, with no cellular signal required at the fence.
Learn more about the Fence Shield, or reach out to us directly at info@safora-tech.com with any questions.