IoT for agriculture: making a difference

Last month, Land Mobile ran an interview with the founder and CEO of Hiber, a company which is in the process of deploying a constellation of nano satellites for the purpose of providing IoT coverage for the most isolated parts of the world. Stimulating as that was, we are subsequently following up this month with a feature taking a more in-depth look at specific use-cases relating to the provision of this kind of remote area coverage.

With that in mind, arguably the most intuitive environment to help explore this topic is farming, an activity that not only consists of any number of invariably complex individual processes but also, very often, takes place in the absolute middle of nowhere. It also just happens to be one of the core activities on which depends the continued survival of the human race on planet Earth.

The first technology we shall be focusing on is Thingstream, a low-power IoT solution that has recently been rolled out on a macadamia nut farm in South Africa. We will also be touching on the work being carried out by Cambridge Consultants within this field, looking in particular at irrigation.