Agriculture

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Agriculture

Empowering Agriculture with IoT Connectivity

Revolutionise Agriculture with Millbeck IoT Connectivity Solutions

What is IoT in Agriculture?

The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming agriculture by connecting devices, sensors, and equipment to the internet, allowing for real-time monitoring and control of farming operations. This advanced connectivity helps farmers make data-driven decisions, optimize resource usage, and increase overall productivity. 

Why IoT connecitivty for agriculture?

IoT technology offers numerous benefits for modern agriculture:

  • Real-time Monitoring: Track soil moisture, temperature, humidity, and other critical parameters in real-time.
  • Data-Driven Decisions: Make informed decisions based on accurate data to improve crop yields and reduce waste.
  • Resource Optimization: Efficiently manage water usage, fertilizers, and pesticides, reducing costs and environmental impact.
  • Automation: Automate irrigation systems, machinery, and other processes to save time and labour.

Enhancing Agricultural Efficiency with IoT

IoT smart farming solutions enhance agricultural efficiency by using sensors to monitor crops’ light, humidity, temperature, soil moisture, and health. These solutions can automate irrigation systems based on sensor data, allowing farmers to manage their fields remotely. Additionally, guidance technologies improve the driving accuracy of tractors and other machinery, reducing overlap and increasing productivity. By analysing IoT-captured data, farmers can identify inefficiencies and fine-tune their operations to make planting and growing decisions more sustainable each year.

Greenhouse farming

Greenhouse farming helps to enhance the yield of vegetables, fruits, and crops. Smart greenhouses can benefit greatly with the help of IoT connectivity by reducing the number of manual interventions required, increasing yields by reducing energy and production loss.

Sensors measure environmental parameters tailored to plant requirements to control the environment in a smart greenhouse. When connected via IoT, we can establish a connection via a Fixed Public IP/VPN or to a cloud server to access the system remotely. This eliminates the need for constant manual monitoring.

Remote connectivity to the IoT systems allows remote data processing and applies control actions. This design provides cost-effective and optimal solutions for farmers with minimal manual intervention by increasing yields.

Overcoming Connectivity Challenges

Many farmers fear that the sheer landmass and rural nature of their activities make connectivity unsuitable. Common concerns around poor quality and patchy coverage are often touted as barriers to adoption. However, low power wide area networks (LPWAN) such as NB-IoT and LTE-M can be incredibly beneficial. These networks are often accessible in areas where 2G and 3G aren’t available, offering connectivity solutions that reach up to a 50-kilometre radius. This is ideal for agricultural applications that typically require low data exchanges and devices with long battery life, all at a low cost. 

Millbeck IoT Connectivity Products and Services

At Millbeck, we offer a range of IoT SIMs, routers, antennas and networking equipment to enable seamless IoT connectivity for your farming application:

IoT Routers

Our high-performance industrial routers ensure stable and secure internet connectivity across your agricultural operations. Designed for rugged environments, our routers offer robust performance even in the most challenging conditions. See Proroute and Teltonika routers for the best performance. 

IoT SIMs

Our multi-network, non-steered IoT SIM cards provide reliable cellular connectivity, ensuring your IoT devices remain connected at all times. With flexible data plans and extensive coverage, our SIM cards are tailored to meet the unique needs of the agricultural sector. They deliver the best cellular coverage in remote agricultural fields and ensure your devices always use the best connection no matter where they are.

Smart Farming with IoT

Smart farming with the help of IoT is highly productive, efficient, and sustainable when compared with the conventional approach. Whether you deploy low-power field sensor networks or deliver real-time tractor telematics and drone operations, our solutions provide the IoT cellular connectivity type that suits your needs – from 2G to 4G, LTE-M, and NB-IoT. 

Are you building IoT products that help farmers and agri-businesses produce more with less, leveraging the power of data? Is your goal to increase yields and optimize resource usage by delivering a robust, flexible, and easy-to-consume AgTech solution? If so, Millbeck can help. Reliably connect devices, deploy and operate your solution at scale, and expand into new markets with confidence using our global IoT connectivity platform.

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