It’s universally agreed that if the agricultural community and broader food industry could take advantage and embrace the digital technologies of today, it could make a significant difference to day to day management, freeing up more of your time and capital to invest, and ultimately help create a more productive business.
In a world where everything now is digitally connected or the ‘Internet of Things’, data is a critical asset. Food is no different.
Faster and quicker insights from real-time data help us to more nimbly respond to what the market wants, be more efficient in how we produce it to ensure less wastage, and get it to market, and show our customers how safe and sustainable our food is.
IoT is driving the concept of ‘precision agriculture’. Precision agriculture is the use of technology aimed at improving growers’ decision-making through data analytics. It includes software, such as big data solutions and farm management tools, and hardware, such as sensors, drones and satellites.
For example, some growers make uniform decisions across large plots of land, which can lead to high variability of crop yield across the farm. Integration of sensors into fields will improve the availability of localized information to growers regarding temperature, soil moisture, and soil nutrients. Drones, satellites and e-tagging can provide real-time snapshots of a farm situation and identification of herds grazing in open pastures or location in big stables. Less time spent looking for animals, means less fuel used, less man-hours.
HALKAR’s Smart Agriculture & Livestock Platform enables you to
- Easily collect and manage the explosion of data from sensors, cloud services such as weather or maps, connected equipment and existing systems
- Quickly build and bring to market new innovative IoT applications at 10 times the speed of other approaches with our Rapid Application Development Drag and Drop AppBuilder (Application Platform as a Service)
- Leverage big data and analytics to provide new insights and recommendations to aid in better decision-making
- Enable farmers to easily visualize data and take action on insights and recommendations