The biggest opportunity for IoT is to match supply and demand – an investor’s view, from Finistere
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailManufacturing has come full circle, from craft production in the first industrial age, through mass production in the global age, and a new compulsion towards hyper-customisation and the idea of …
Smart farming Q&A: “Farmers are in-the-know about their assets”, says ABI Research
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailTwo million farms and 36 million cattle will be connected to the internet by low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks, and other technologies, by 2024. This is the calculation from analyst house …
Why farming needs 5G, and not just LoRaWAN and NB-IoT – an investor’s view, from NGP Capital
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailCertain functions of smart farming will not work on low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks, even while technologies like LoRaWAN and NB-IoT tend to support most smart agricultural technologies, as they exist …
This hard land: From cotton gin, to combine harvester, to computer vision (by way of The Boss)
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailFarming is hard. It always has been. There is a song called This Hard Land by Bruce Springsteen, rock’s great chronicler of every-day struggle in modern America, which captures something …
IBM puts farm data and weather data into AI mixer to sharpen-up agriculture
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailIBM has released a set of analytics tools that combine weather data and farm data in its Watson machine-learning engine to give farmers insights about planning, plowing, planting, spraying and …
John Deere talks computer vision and the ultimate in farm gadgetry
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPeople don’t get how sophisticated farmers are, says Lane, Arthur, director of digital solutions at John Deere, the US maker of industrial equipment and machinery. “They don’t see the technology …
Two million smart farms, 36 million smart cows by 2024, says new report
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailTwo million farms and 36 million cattle will be connected to the internet by low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks, and other technologies, by 2024. This is the calculation from analyst house …
Editorial Report | Making Industry Smarter Series – Connecting Agriculture
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe digital transformation of the agricultural sector – a review of the strategies, technologies and stakes in play as farmers seek more sustainable and competitive ways to feed the world.
Four cases of Vodafone’s local know-how in smart farming
Facebook Twitter Linkedin email Vodafone’s approach to the digital transformation of industry prioritises certain ‘vertical’ markets. Agriculture is not among them. Instead, it sees greater opportunity at group level in …
Seeds, soil and sensors – the story of Sensoterra
Facebook Twitter Linkedin email Three per cent of the world’s water is accessible freshwater. Of that, 70 per cent of the freshwater consumed is used in the agricultural industry – …
