IoT Solutions for Smart Farming
The world will need to produce 70% more food in 2050 than it did in 2006 in order to feed the growing population of the Earth – ‘UN Food and Agriculture Organization. To meet this demand, farmers and agricultural companies are turning to the Internet of Things for analytics and greater production capabilities. Smart farming is a concept quickly catching on in the agricultural business. Offering high-precision crop control, useful data collection, and automated farming techniques, there are clearly many advantages a networked farm has to offer.
Business challenges
- Operational efficiency
- Workforce
- Weather dependency
- Crop health
- Water, soil & fertilizer
- Crop information
- Livestock monitoring
- Rising production cost
Solutions
- Resource optimization
- Sensing for soil moisture and nutrients.
- Controlling water usage for optimal plant growth.
- Ecosystem management
- Collect weather data which may impact crop.
- Knowledge & training
- Crop data analytics
- Workforce management
- Determining custom fertilizer profiles based on soil chemistry.
- Knowledge & training
- Livestock management – gather data regarding the health, well-being.