First came connected cars, then homes with artificial intelligence, and now smart fields. The time has finally come to give prominence to nature. Telefónica proposes Smart Agro, an initiative to improve agricultural processes and save costs.
Currently in Spain the agriculture sector consumes more than 70% of the total water available. In addition, it uses 60% of the surface and 20% is irrigated. With all this, we can be aware of the importance that this sector has in the day to day.
There is a growing concern for sustainability, traceability and quality of agri-food processes. However, these productions cannot be improved with traditional methods. Therefore, an improvement plan for the agro environment is proposedwhether for livestock or agriculture, where technology is taken full advantage of.
Smart Agro it consists of a georeferenced monitoring and visualization of data of the field assets that allows effective action in real time. With this new system, driven by the M2M Sector Solutions area, you can enable new business models, improve all operational processes and save expenses.
The Smart Agro proposal is born from the need of the farmer or rancher to improve all the daily processes involved in their work. Thus, this initiative is the sum of different technological capabilities made to measure for every customer. Ensures increased productivity with a 30% reduction in administrative work.
Advantages in livestock farms
Mainly, it allows the optimization of the replenishment and manufacturing processes of animal feed. In addition, it favors the knowledge of how much the cabin is consuming. Also, enables temperature and humidity control on farmswith the ability to measure other physical and environmental parameters that may be of interest.
Advantages on farms
One of the greatest strengths of this development is the irrigation performance and ground sensing with real-time access to information from sensors installed in the field. Remotely, it is possible schedule irrigation shifts in real time. On the other hand, it favors the agricultural information management through the georeferenced visualization of crops with layers of information superimposed on them from anywhere in the world.
Homes with artificial intelligence, connected cars that prevent accidents and, now, farmland and smart farms. What’s next?
