eBook – Smart Agriculture
The challenging future of food
In its recent report, Berg Insight draws up a very complete picture of the crucial issues that the agricultural world and the agri-food chain must face now, and even more so in the years to come:
- The global population is expected to balloon to almost 10 billion people by 2050 increasing demand for food production and diversity by at least 50%[1].
- Meeting this surging demand and people’s changing consumption patterns and habits will require dramatically more efficient food production and distribution capacities, which in turn will rachet up the pressure on the entire agribusiness chain – especially on farmers, growers and breeders.
- Increasing production will require improving yields, of course, but in an increasingly challenging natural environment of more variable and intense weather conditions.
The promising role of IoT
These challenges will not only require streamlining farm-and-production equipment management, but farming practices themselves must also evolve to give way to more automated and efficient solutions, so that producers can concentrate on value-add practices instead of manual, repetitive and non-value-creating tasks.
Smart-agriculture systems enabled by the Internet of Things (IoT) are already providing producers with critical data and operational management support so they can better understand and more efficiently respond to day-to-day developments.
At the same time, these systems can guide farmers to design and implement more economical, ongoing and sustainable practices that preserve natural resources and lessen agriculture’s environmental impact.
Innovative solutions enabled by LoRaWAN
Kerlink and its partners on the ground are implementing smart-agriculture practices in businesses ranging from large-scale producers to boutique vineyards.
This Smart Agriculture eBook presents you with a roundup of the innovative IoT solutions based on the LoRaWAN protocol to increase production and yields and lower operating costs, while embedding a sustainable, smart farming operation:
- Precision agriculture – Use less to grow more
- Smart farming – Nail the Basics
- Cattle Monitoring and Tracking – Stay in Touch
- Greenhouse Monitoring – Indoor Weather
[1] http://www.fao.org/3/a-i6583e.pdf