How IoT sensors can make a farmer’s life easier – Irish Tech News
Farming isn’t a simple business anymore. Farmers are always under pressure to producing more food on fewer acres. They have to meet strict emission requirements and minimize their environmental footprints. They have to protect crops from various pests, keep tabs on climate and go by weather forecasts, control the amount of water flowing in lands, and monitor the entire crop spread in several square miles of areas. Above all, they have to keep track of their equipment, machinery, and storage.
So, there is a lot to do and, farmers cannot merely rely on their assumptions or basic techs to keep producing to feed an expanding global population.
Thankfully we now have IoT in action. The technology of IoT and IoT-enabled sensors have now all matured to help farmers in solving challenges they have been facing from hundreds of years.
IoT or ‘Internet of Things’ is all about connecting things through a wireless network so that they can remotely monitor, control, execute the assigned tasks. There are limitless opportunities that the IoT has introduced to the humanity, from a system closing curtains automatically after detecting more-than-required exposure of sunlight in a room to a simple, light socket that can be distantly controlled to provide or stop electricity to an appliance, to an IT infrastructure for a supply chain company for tracking all its products, pallets, containers, and transportation with precise Geo-location data, it is now ready to redefine the world as the internet did a few decades back.