Connected farming and the IoT

And this is where the concept of connected farming comes in. Euristiq IoT specialists, who provide customized services for IoT software development for agriculture, took us on a brief excursion into this specific topic.

What is Connected Farming, and What Does it Include?

IoT in agriculture is intended to help farmers to monitor vital information about fields and crops, such as air temperature, humidity and soil quality. For this purpose, remote sensors are used.

Connected farming is sustainable agriculture, which uses the latest information and communication technologies. In simple words, this is smart farming, where the Internet of Things plays a key role.

Connected farming can include the following features:

• monitoring of agricultural machinery and equipment (location, consumption of fuel and lubricants, planning of agricultural works);
• system for planning the application of irrigation and fertilizers;
• remote monitoring of farm facilities (the state of stored products, data collection and control of air conditioning, heating and ventilation);
• accumulation of statistics for the optimal choice of sowing crops;
• short-term weather forecasts;
• remote monitoring of temperature and humidity of air and soil of fields;
• tracking the location of animals.

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