Smart Farming: The Future of Agriculture Technology
Smart Farming is a concept of farming management using modern Information and Communication Technologies to increase the quantity and quality of products.
Smart Farming Is the Answer
Agriculture today is adopting the Internet of Things technology to help cut costs, boost production efficiency, and figure out ways of using less to get more.
A Connected, or Smart, Farm is a farm managed with modern Information and communication technologies for the sake of increasing quantity and quality of products and optimising the production process.
- Sensors: devices that track soil quality, temperature, water, pressure, and humidity;
- Software: solutions that are used to run the smart farm;
- Connectivity: cellular, LoRa (long-range wide-area network), etc.
- Location: with the help of GPS, farmers can track the location of their equipment, livestock, or packaged products;
- Robotics: modernised tractors, completely autonomous processing equipment;
- Data Analysis: various types of analytics present data collected from IoT devices, analyse it and participate in strategic decision-making.