Blue White Robotics, Federated Wireless, and Intel have announced work to adapt and connect existing farm equipment, notably tractors, at a California winery into autonomous production vehicles. The trio said the test project, which includes a private 4G/5G installation in the US CBRS band,...
NNNCo. said that the LoRaWAN was funded as part of the Victorian Government’s On-Farm Internet of Things (IoT) trial
Australian IoT operator NNNCo has deployed a new network spread across 32,000 square kilometers in Victoria to help local farmers make better use of digital technologies...
Agricultural tech provider Solinftec is working with agricultural cooperative GROWMARK in the US to deploy and develop its new automated field robot during the 2022 farming season, “from planting to harvesting”.
Solinftec, headquartered in São Paulo in Brazil and also West Lafayette in Indiana in...
Deere & Company will acquire Bear Flag Robotics, a Silicon Valley-based startup, for $250 million to accelerate the development and delivery of smart farming tools like automation and autonomous vehicles.
"Deere views autonomy as an important step forward in enabling farmers to leverage their resources strategically to feed the world and...
Farming is just outdoor manufacturing, says John Deere; the whole concept of ‘smart manufacturing’ is only novel to cloistered production, taking place indoors, out of the rain. Farmers have been at it for decades, already: connecting machines, processing data, bringing intelligence into the field....
Note, a version of this article appears in a new report on the asset tracking sector, called Asset Tracking – and the March Towards Massive IoT. The report can be downloaded here.
The race-to-the-bottom in the IoT market has taken another turn, and plunged downwards...
Italian operator TIM and agricultural confederation Confagricoltura have signed an agreement to launch the "Agritech Innovation Hub" project, with the main aim of developing smart agriculture in Italy.
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) intends to support agricultural entrepreneurs in the post-COVID economic, technological and social...
Semtech announced that IoT environmental solutions provider ICT International and IoT gateway and device manufacturer Definium Technologies are leveraging multiple products based on Semtech’s LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol to improve crop yield in Australian avocado plantations.
The two Australian firms deployed a suite...
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 with better connectivity, it was primarily dealership-focused, in the sense that it really only concerned...
IoT America designs solutions for precision agriculture, livestock management and infrastructure monitoring
French internet of things (IoT) specialist Kerlink and Internet of Things America (IoT America), a U.S. company dedicated to deploying IoT solutions across rural America, have recently teamed up to enable the deployment of IoT...
The carrier carried out a precision agriculture trial in Mississippi last year as part of the firm’s Tech Movement initiative
Regional carrier C Spire, which is headquartered in Ridgeland, Miss., aims to partner with farmers and smart equipment firms to provide network and information technology...
The company said the IoT network will cover some 3 million hectares across Australia
Australia’s National Narrowband Network Company (NNNCo) and Goanna Ag announced the rollout of a publicly available LoRaWAN internet of things network for smart irrigation management solutions to Australian cotton growers.
The network...
The regional carrier inked an agreement with IoT America to provide a suite of IoT solutions
U.S. Cellular has signed an agreement with Internet of Things America to provide a suite of IoT solutions for business customers and farmers across the country.
The regional carrier said...
According to research done by consulting firm Deloitte, meat consumption in the USA is on the rise. Consumption will reach 545 million tons by 2050 up from 367 in 2015. There will be a continuous demand for ways to help the livestock farming industry...
The study highlighted that over 1 million farmers in the country have expressed interest in the implementation of IoT tools
Internet of Things (IoT) solutions are already being used by nearly 250,000 farmers across the United States, according to a recent study by agricultural technology...
The market is expected to expand at a CAGR of 13.6% during the 2016-2021 period, consultancy finds
The global market for precision agriculture solutions is forecasted to reach about 4.2 billion euros ($4.9 billion) in 2021, up from 2.2 million euros in 2016, according to...
The new program will enable students to develop IoT applications for agriculture and food services
Canadian telco Bell MTS has announced a 500,000 Canadian dollars ($371,000) contribution to the University of Manitoba's Front and Centre campaign to launch the Bell MTS Innovations in Agriculture Program,...
Agriculture is evolving
Smart farming and precision agriculture have become important parts of modern agricultural practices. According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), by 2050, food production may increase 70% to feed 9.6 billion people. Food and agricultural companies are...
Agriculture is evolving
Smart farming and precision agriculture have become important parts of modern agricultural practices. According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), by 2050, food production may increase 70% to feed 9.6 billion people. Food and agricultural companies are...
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...
