Agricultural IoT Solutions

IoT is used for agriculture in many ways, for example:

• Cattle management, including real-time animal health control, product and cattle correlation, milk production management and composition analysis, etc.
• Crop management, including monitoring of climate and weather conditions that may affect the crop, soil moisture monitoring, automated irrigation systems, water usage monitoring, waste control, etc;
• Transportation management, including cold chain transport monitoring, procurement, and sales data collection, supply chain management, etc.

The benefits of using IoT in agriculture are:

• automated monitoring of livestock, crops, and climate conditions;
• ability to build an advanced farm management system;
• automation of greenhouses;
• improved data collection and analysis;
• optimization of resources.

The use of Internet of Things for agriculture transforms the industry in many ways, from allowing for automation of routine processes to building advanced management systems that can help control a whole farm.

The features of agriculture IoT solutions are numerous and can be applied to any process, from cattle management to crops analysis.

There are particular challenges associated with development and deployment of smart farming IoT solutions. Typically, they are:

• design and durability. All drones, sensor, weather stations, and other hardware should have a durable design and be able to withstand any conditions.
• connectivity. Developers should establish an uninterrupted connection inside complex IoT systems even for the most damaging weather events and conditions.
• changing environment. The development team should take into account that IoT systems will operate in unstable conditions: changing weather, humidity, temperature, and so on.

Smart agriculture mostly uses Internet of Things and all related technologies. For example:

• Development frameworks / SDKs: Node.js, IoT.js, Device.js, Java and Eclipse IoT (Kura, SmartHome), Angular, .NET Core, C/C++/C#
• Platforms: Amazon Web Services IoT, Microsoft Azure IoT, Google Cloud Platform, ThingWorx IoT Platform, Universal of Things (IoT) Platform
• Sensors: temperature, humidity, light, motion, carbon dioxide, industrial sensors

At HQSoftware, we build IoT farming solutions for such purposes as:

• cattle management and health control;
• crops management and harvest analysis;
• control of production in correlation with soil composition, cattle health, and other parameters;
• automated greenhouses;
• automation of supply chains, and many other use cases.

Contact us with any details you have on your IoT agriculture solutions and we will provide you with a free personal estimation.