Agriculture has historically been a key factor in the development of human society. During the last centuries, agriculture activities have been benefited from automation and technological advances. The Internet of Things, where Libelium’s technology plays a critical role, is also taking part in this by providing the farmers with new analysis and forecast tools that help them to improve their production.
The adoption of new technologies such as Libelium’s Sensor Network in the agricultural sector plays a central role in order to achieve challenges like limited arable land, climate change, scarcity of water or availability of energy among others.
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To keep under control all factors influencing the cultivations
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It is widely known that cultivations are influenced by numerous external factors. Farmers need to physically go on the fields in order to continuously check and control their fields. Even so, they lack the tools to forecast adverse weather conditions and plant diseases.
This result in an inefficient use of fertilizers and pesticides, along with inefficient irrigation schedules. Knowing when exactly to use pesticides and fertilizers would mean to save money, but also to lower the chemical residues. This is critical to obtain a healthier produce and comply
Libelium Sensor Network has been used by
- Remotely observe and obtain real-time data from the fields.
- Prevent plant diseases thanks to the algorithms and predictive models.
- Improve healthiness and quality of the production.
- Lower the use of fertilizers and chemicals in agricultural yields.
Additionally, a big saving in time and costs is obtained thanks to Libelium Sensor Network. Experts say that “a 4th range company spends more than 4,000€ on pesticides per hectare per year. This product can lower this costs by 10% so the product basically pays for itself in one year”.
There is a significant reduction in time-to-market, increasing the focus on agriculture market segmentation, stimulating the creation of a highly verticalized product that completely meets the needs of the customers.
The farmer can also associate crop yields with the greenhouses’ climate during a period so that OPI can provide the crop yield forecast, reducing the usage of pesticides and water for irrigation.
- For 4G network version: HTTPs/REST protocols directly from devices to cloud.
- For LoRaWAN network version: LoRaWAN protocols from devices to gateway and HTTPs/REST protocols from
gateway to cloud.
EVJA selected Libelium Sensor Platform motivated by the following criteria:
- High modularity of the products
- Fully firmware customization
- Product Certification for Worldwide
- Best money for value
- Low lead time
- Full warranty for every component
- Long-established Product
- Long life cycle of products
- Efficient technical support
- Direct commercial contact
“Our users are farmers and they are used to deal with extreme conditions of agricultural environments; hence they appreciate the high-resistant case of Waspmote Plug & Sense!” pointed out Antonio Affinito – CTO at EVJA.
“Working with Libelium’s devices means you have endless opportunities in every market segments that are changing with the new tendency of the Internet of Things”, adds Antonio.
For more information about our products contact the Libelium Sales Department.
More info:
- Read more about Libelium sensor product lines in the Waspmote, Waspmote Plug & Sense! Sensor Platform and Meshlium Gateway websites.
- For technical details on Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Agriculture: Plug & Sense! Smart Agriculture Technical Guide
- Read more about Libelium sensor product lines in the Waspmote, Waspmote Plug & Sense! Sensor Platform and Meshlium Gateway websites.
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References:
- Article from Libelium.com
EVJA : evja.eu- The Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN (FAO): fao.org
- Royal Horticultural Society: rhs.org.uk