Adopting smart farming solutions to improve efficiency, reduce processing costs and improve yield should be high on the agenda for regional businesses. There are specific challenges generated by agriculture including distances and environmental factors that need to be addressed by your solution – and there is every reason to collect all your Agricultural IoT solutions into one central management portal to monitor everything from one mobile point – on or off your farm.
Utilising Internet of Things (IoT) applications in Agriculture is the way to efficiently monitor and manage all your disparate tasks needing to be performed in a day – and manage them from your home office (or while shopping in town or even on holiday overseas). Do you want to be in a position to control your entire farm from your phone?
Depending on your business, there are any number of solutions to help, with their number only limited by your wish list; and getting set up is not necessarily a costly experience.
Some examples of uses of IoT in Agriculture include:
Sometimes implementation is not straightforward due to lack of power where you need it or lack of mobile coverage to transfer the sensor information from its origin to the end destination.
Other challenges can include ensuring battery life of the sensor lasts the distance to get the job done. We can work through all these with you.
Mesh networks generally don’t work well in many Agricultural settings due to sensors being positioned close to or on ground level.
And it’s also important to know how far away the data from your sensors needs to travel. The decision is then made to utilise radio frequency, mobile coverage, Bluetooth or Bluetooth Low Energy, LoRa (Long Range Low Power), Wi-Fi or a multitude of other options. Ideally you would have a combination of data transfer methods as you need to factor in fall back in case one fails.
How to power your IoT set-up is an important factor to consider – you will need applications that utilise a low power source in order to keep power and data costs down.
Our two key design goals are to produce a solution for you that will work from its own power source (independent of mains power) for long periods of time with fall back; and to allow quick and easy remote placement.
Moving forward with IoT should be an important aim of anyone in the agricultural community. Your IoT system can collect data and make meaningful use of it to provide you with field plans, fertilisations schedules, nutrient monitoring, and more. All with the end aim of improving your efficiency, therefore minimising your losses and maximising your profits.
Move from having a worm’s eye view of your farm to a bird’s eye view.
Powertec will work closely with you and have a number of installers across Australia who specialise in planning and installation of IoT solutions in regional and agricultural environments covering all aspects of your communication solution. Start with one building block and grow your monitoring touch points, even spread your payments monthly and grow your solution with your business growth.
For a solution to your farming IoT problem please contact us at Powertec on 1300 471 781.
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