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A new government-funded scheme in the UK is seeking to apply IoT sensing and AI sense-making to lamb farming. The UK Agri-Tech Centre, an independent organisation for agricultural innovation, is …

More satellite IoT stats; following on from yesterday’s post, reporting on Juniper Research figures, that the total number of IoT satellites will grow by 150 percent over the next five …

Think of a cutting-edge, high-tech environment. You’re probably not thinking of a farm, are you? Yet, in the flourishing landscapes of New Zealand, a cherry farm is leading the charge …

Fourth testbed to focus on use cases including smart agriculture and rural broadband The Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program has officially taken live its fourth and final testbed …

There was a good panel session, yesterday (November 29; see cover image, available on-demand), on IoT tracking in the supply chain, which brought insightful content and commentary from leading IoT …

The farmers can use data provided by the LoRaWAN network to anticipate extreme events that require clam-preservation action IoT solutions provider Kerlink and Bioceanor, which is a predictive water quality …

Telstra has deployed a private 5G network for industrial tech organisation AgriFood Connect in Australia. It has worked with Ericsson on the deployment; it is the Swedish vendor’s first private-5G …

‘Today, the fully autonomous portion is just tillage; tomorrow it may be planting, and after that it may be spraying,’ the manager of John Deere’s StarFire Network Al Savage told …

Operator Telia is working with a consortium of Swedish research and tech companies to test the effectiveness of cellular 5G to connect and control robots in the farming industry. The …

US farming company AeroFarms has recruited Nokia on a multi-year deal to supply private 5G, computer vision, machine learning, and autonomous drones. The pair are testing the technologies with current …

According to John Deere’s Vice President of Production & Precision Ag Production Systems Deanna Kovar, farming is just like manufacturing, except, of course, that it’s outside. This means it’s subject to the whims of nature, making advanced technologies like spatial intelligence and real-time data processing crucial. Further, the pressure is on for farmers as higher yields will be necessary to feed and clothe the increasing population.

Australian network operator Telstra is to deploy weather stations on its NB-IoT network infrastructure in Queensland, in the northeast of the country, in order to create a hyper-local weather data …

The deployment will benefit more than 50,000 farmers in India Nokia and Vodafone India Foundation, the CSR arm of Vi, have deployed a Smart Agriculture (SmartAgri) solution as part of …

When John Deere first began supplying agricultural tools in 1804, it was pitchforks and shovels; today, it’s connectivity and data When John Deere first began its initiative to provide farmers …

IBM 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 …

Low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks like Sigfox are providing the platform for internet-of-thing (IoT) based alarm systems that are cheap and easy to install. They also provide coverage to rural areas, …

A newly installed Wi-Fi network at agricultural research center in California may enable researchers to view field data in real time while serving as a proof-of-concept for rural communities needing …

Two agtech startups from demo day need 5G more than others. SALINAS, California — Salinas — the “salad bowl of the world” — grows agricultural tech entrepreneurs. At the National …

A suburb of Washington, D.C., is growing into a living laboratory for “internet of things” technology projects. Set in Montgomery County, Maryland, Thingstitute is set to be an agricultural testbed …

A suburb of Washington, D.C., is growing into a living laboratory for “internet of things” technology projects. Set in Montgomery County, Maryland, Thingstitute is set to be an agricultural testbed …

Fresh food: A growing use case for machine learning. Machine learning can help retailers address the challenges of offering fresh foods, which account for up to 40% of a grocers’ …

Fresh food: A growing use case for machine learning. Machine learning can help retailers address the challenges of offering fresh foods, which account for up to 40% of a grocers’ …

Senet, a low power wide area network provider for North American LoRa-based “internet of things” applications, today announced a partnership with Paige Ag, a manufacturer and supplier of wire, cables, …

Senet, a low power wide area network provider for North American LoRa-based “internet of things” applications, today announced a partnership with Paige Ag, a manufacturer and supplier of wire, cables, …

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 …