BROWSING: farming

The internet of beans Thumb-sized "plastic beans," are being filled with sensors and tossed into grain bins and storage facilities for precision agriculture, getting rid of the need for handheld devices or elaborate moisture monitoring systems, according to an article on Farm Journal's AGWeb. The sensor pods...

Human expectations for constant connectivity and better information are boosting industrial internet of things projects, according to Sherri McDaniel, president of Atek Access Technologies. "I think we're at an interesting time as human beings," McDaniel said. "We now expect to be connected all the time,...

Drones used in precision agriculture OCEALIA Group is a French farming cooperative with 7,200 members and nearly 900 employees. Since 2015, five drone operators have been flying the group's two AIRINOV multiSPEC 4C sensor-equipped SenseFly eBee Ag drones in order to gain valuable fertilization data. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du7wJX6hEP4 “The drone data is complementary to satellite...

Drones used in precision agriculture OCEALIA Group is a French farming cooperative with 7,200 members and nearly 900 employees. Since 2015, five drone operators have been flying the group's two AIRINOV multiSPEC 4C sensor-equipped SenseFly eBee Ag drones in order to gain valuable fertilization data. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du7wJX6hEP4 “The drone data is complementary to satellite...

The projected status of the world's water supply and quality in the next decade looks bleak: widespread shortages, difficulties growing food for a booming global population and billions exposed to diseases caused by poor sanitation. These anticipated outcomes result from the combination of wasted freshwater...

"Connecting" rural farming to accommodate a booming global population Connected and precision agriculture, which heavily revolves around providing low-income rural farming areas with mobile networks for access to the internet, is becoming a necessity for the stability of those areas, as well as to accommodate...