NNNCo announces agricultural IoT network
Australia’s National Narrowband Network Company (NNNCo) has announced that it will be forming a joint-venture company called Connected Country to construct and manage a nationwide long-range wide-area network (LoRaWAN) Internet of Things (IoT) network in partnership with Discover Ag.
Connected Country’s Rural IoT Network is aimed at providing low-cost connectivity to farmers to enable them to deploy IoT devices and solutions.
“The LoRaWAN will provide the backbone infrastructure for secure, standards-based shared networks of low-cost wireless sensors that constantly report on essential farm metrics like soil moisture, rainfall, crop health, water levels, and livestock data,” NNNCo said. Read more…