We are enabling users to have better control and management of all the processes in the agricultural field, from watering to soil monitoring, harvest, storage and shipping.
Agriculture
Farm Yield Optimization
What it is
Using smart sensors to monitor soil conditions and water content to reduce watering and energy costs, optimize production and increase yields.
Challenges:
- Climate change and weather variations make rainfall increasingly unreliable.
- Excessive or insufficient watering can severely impact yields and irrigation represents one of the most significant costs for agricultural producers.
- Common practice is to periodically take manual soil samples from parts of the land which is a labor intensive process and provides only limited sample data.
Benefits:
- Use smart sensors to understand the key factors that impact crop growth and reduce crop losses due to disease or adverse weather conditions.
- Reduce material costs by reducing use of energy, fertilizers and pesticides.
- Reduce labor costs since the need for human intervention is less frequent.
- Guarantee food security by reducing the effects of droughts and scarcity.
What can you monitor?
- Soil humidity
- Soil temperature
- Soil conductivity
- Golf course soil conditions
- Irrigation system leakages
- Carbon dioxide emissions
Agriculture
Livestock Monitoring
What it is
Using smart sensors to monitor location and health parameters of livestock in real-time in farms and large extensions of land with no cellular connection needed.
Challenges:
- Livestock location patterns are important to know for farmers to guarantee food accessibility and healthy living conditions.
- Theft can be costly to farmers and location is not easy to track after the fact.
- Significant financial losses are incurred due to livestock health and safety issues.
Benefits:
- Track grazing animals to prevent loss and identify grazing patterns.
- Enable farmers to quickly treat sick animals and prevent spread of illnesses.
- Gather and analyze historical data to identify trends in cattle health.
- Monitor readiness to mate or give birth, preventing the loss of cubs and optimizing breeding practices.
What can you monitor?
- Cattle, sheep, horse location
- Breeding patterns
- Behavior patterns
- Virtual fencing
- Animal safety
- Domestic animals
Winemaking
Wine Quality Enhancement
What it is
Using smart sensors to collect environmental data such as temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind speed and soil moisture to closely track key parameters of the terroir.
Challenges:
- Drought condition is increasingly making rainfall unreliable and unpredictable.
- Excessive heat, cold or water can severely impact grape yields.
- Winemakers lack precise data to make informed decisions on daily operations.
- Experimental techniques to enhance wine quality are often applied without access to trustful data to evaluate the effects on grape quality and yields.
Benefits:
- Evolve from calendar-based spraying and irrigation to precision viticulture.
- Automate irrigation according to necessity and avoid drought or swamps.
- Detect optimal time for harvesting, optimize crop load, prune vines, etc.
- Reduce crop losses due to disease, pests or adverse weather conditions.
- Reduce the costs with additives such as fertilizers and pesticides.
- Reduce labor costs since the need for human intervention is less frequent.
- Viticulture is an age-old industry, but new advancements in the internet of things (IoT) are helping vineyards to improve efficiency and produce higher quality wines through real-time data analysis and precision recommendations.
- Variability in climate and uncertainty of irrigation has affected the viability of some large wine grape production regions across the globe.
- The economic impact caused by pests and crop diseases is also significant.
- Globally, wine consumption has declined over the past decade, but consumers’ interest has shifted to the quality of wine and the way it is produced.
- Sustainable viticulture is therefore influencing consumer purchase motivations and consequently changing growing practices.
- Meanwhile, regulatory compliance for supplying to international markets is adding to the growing complexity in the industry.
What can you monitor?
- Soil humidity in remote areas
- Conditions in wine cellars
- Local temperature and humidity
- Weather forecast
- CO2, O2, pH, pressure
- Liquid levels in barrels
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