Farming, Survival Instinct

How many days do you think you can survive without eating? In the best case, you will last three weeks. Nowadays, survival is not the only issue; Rather, it is important to receive the essential nutrients to maintain health. According to research by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, if food production does not increase by 70% by 2050, we will all face a serious health threat due to the world's population increasing. Agriculture and aquaculture are two very important global food production industries that can address this problem.

Internet of Things, Champion of Disrupt

To increase food production in the agriculture and aquaculture industries, we can increase the cultivation areas or the number of employees. But these are limited resources that cause further problems. However, the most sustainable solutions are based on optimizing the current infrastructure with the help of new technologies.

IoT technology plays a key role in the development ofsmart city,smart building,smart energyandsmart farmingsolutions. Using the Internet of Things (IoT) and other technologies including artificial intelligence and machine learning in farming optimization will result in the optimal use of resources, increase product efficiency, and reduce operating costs. Here, you can see some impressive IoT applications for smart farming:

Smart Agriculture:

• Using drones for irrigation and spraying

• Monitoring soil and product quality by sensors

• Smart irrigation in fields and greenhouses

• Real-time monitoring and weather forecast

• Smart greenhouse management

• Tracking agricultural equipment

Smart Aquaculture:

• Smart feeder remote controlling and planning

• Smart aerator based on oxygen status

• Monitoring water quality including temperature and oxygen

• Monitoring and controlling farms and aquariums conditions

• Improving security through virtual fences and cameras

• Real-time tracking for equipment and workers

You probably have a thousand other ideas reaching your creative mind now that you know better about the rising agriculture and aquaculture industries and the power of IoT in these sectors. But, when applying IoT capabilities to implement your ideas, you will need certain skills and tools. Thingspod can be a dreamy tool to make your ideas come true!

ThingsPod, the Ideal Tool

ThingsPod is a comprehensive Internet of Things platform for managing your IoT devices, which makes processing, storing, and displaying data fast, easy, and delightful.

You can send all sorts of data related to the vehicle location, cargo status, and driver behavior to the ThingsPod platform using smart devices (nodes). Thingspod supports many web protocols such as MQTT, HTTP, and CoAP and other industrial protocols such as Modbus, OPC-UA, and LoRaWAN. Then, you will be able to process your data from fleet devices through platform programming blocks and display the information by default widgets.

In ThingsPod, you can manage farming in the following ways:

• Collecting different data from agricultural and aquacultural sensors

• Using Rules Engine for processing the gathered data and generating alerts

• Calculating data and sending information to external systems

• Displaying historical or real-time data by flexible dashboards

• Defining Roles for managing users’ access to devices and dashboards

• Remote control and OTA update for smart devices

• Sending information with custom frameworks to external user apps

• Achieving all initiatives with almost no coding!