Farm
IoT Solutions for Smart Farming
The world will need to produce 70% more food in 2050 than it did in 2006 in order to feed the growing population of the Earth – ‘UN Food and Agriculture Organization. To meet this demand, farmers and agricultural companies are turning to the Internet of Things for analytics and greater production capabilities. Smart farming is a concept quickly catching on in the agricultural business. Offering high-precision crop control, useful data collection, and automated farming techniques, there are clearly many advantages a networked farm has to offer.
BUSINESS CHALLENGES in Farming
- Operational efficiency
- Workforce – main challenge in farming
- Weather dependency
- Crop health
- Water, soil & fertilizer
- Crop information
- Livestock monitoring on farms
- Farm Rising production cost
FARMING SOLUTIONS:
- Resource optimization in farming
- Sensing for soil moisture and nutrients.
- Controlling water usage for optimal plant growth.
- Ecosystem management on farms.
- Collect weather data which may impact crop.
- Knowledge & training for farming
- Crop data analytics
- Workforce management
- Determining custom fertilizer profiles based on soil chemistry in farming.
- Farming training
- Livestock management – gather data regarding health, well-being.
Contact S5 Systems of Smart Farming in Perth.
