The internet of Things: Wireless internet for the 100+ hectare farm office
The Internet of Things will offer farmers easy access to low-cost farm-wide wireless data coverage, suitable for most technology monitoring purposes, across the hundreds of hectares that make up the farm office.
ANALYSIS: The Internet of Things (IoT) is the current buzz in the technology world, and if opinions are to be believed, then it’s the best thing since sliced bread. In fact, in comparison, sliced bread is toast!
If you’re not up to warp speed with IoT, it’s a concept of technology frameworks using sensors (fixed or mobile, or wearable on people or animals, or smartphones) that are connected and ‘talk’ to each other through internet cloud computing.
In the previous column, colleague Callum Eastwood wrote about how Big Data might impact on farming. In the ecosystem that is the Internet of Things, that mass of data can be collected, integrated, interrogated and transformed using powerful analytics to support decision-making, to automate processes, and shared locally or globally to benchmark or identify trends and opportunities. Read more…
