Tag: Agriculture
John Deere ploughs furrow as Industrial Internet pioneer
John Deere may seem an unlikely pioneer of the fourth industrial revolution, but the company is using IoT, telematics and satellite technologies to drive precision...
Sensor could cut UK bovine mortality rates by up to 80...
Sensors placed on cows' tails could help save the lives of animals and their offspring during calving season, by predicting when mothers are due to give birth.
The developers of...
Start-up of the month: Mothive – ensuring the world’s food and...
IoB spends five minutes with Angelo Monteiro, the managing director and co-founder of London-based start-up Mothive, to talk defence, agriculture and how the Internet...
Blame the skills gap? Businesses failing to take advantage of IoT...
A new study published this week claims firms that want to use IoT data to help them improve product quality are failing to execute on...
Farming industry ‘already embracing IoT’
M2M and IoT analysts Beecham Research believes that smart farming could transform not just large farms, but small and medium-sized ones too.
The firm has...
Farmer uses IoT to slash water consumption by three-quarters
An experiment using IoT to reduce water consumption in agriculture has seen a decrease by 75 percent in the water used to grow avocados.
The...