Smart Farming Allows for Improved Monitoring

Monitoring your farm can help keep it safer. Video surveillance is an option that keeps an eye on the farm for potential intruders or incidents. This can be done on-site or remotely. It can also help you check on various parts of your farm from one place.

Remote monitoring with the right technology is possible with smart farming. Video surveillance and radios can help you maintain communications with those in the fields. Your farm can also be monitored if someone is unable to get on-site due to weather or travel issues. Remote monitoring can also increase transparency for those who primarily work off-site.

Smart Farming Improves Communication

The right technology on any farm, especially smart farms, can improve work efficiency. It can also affect communication and security. If something isn’t working correctly, it can be reported, discovered, and the problem can be addressed as soon as possible.

Private LTE (PLTE) can help keep data secure while still providing a way for your team to access it. You’ll get the speed your network needs while maintaining your farm’s data privacy, since it only allows access to authorized users.

Two-Way Radio Communication

Two-way radios can make it easy to communicate across the farm without having to drive or use other resources to contact everyone on-site. Radios are more durable, and can come with extended battery lives, which takes away the worry of having to pause work for charging.

Using a radio saves gas and working hours, it reduces emissions, and it allows you to allocate employee resources to more important tasks.

Bi-Directional Amplifiers (BDAs)/Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) can also help improve signals for your farm for better communication.

Smart Farming Makes for Easier Data Collection and Analysis

Technology can make data capture and storage easier across many industries, including farming. View crop-watering data, pesticide usage, and equipment purchases. All this data can then be shared among managers, who can review it on-site or remotely via Wi-Fi or PLTE.

Once data is received, you can compare data from previous weeks to current weeks and determine if a system is working or if it needs improvement. You can also use this data to help you examine costs and estimate future expenses based on what you’ve used previously.