Vertical: Smart Agriculture
How a dairy farm increased their milk production 18% with IoT and Machine Learning
According to the <a href="https://www.libelium.com/libeliumworld/iot-helps-to-reach-sustainable-development-goals-to-transform-our-world/">SDG Goal 2: Zero Hunger</a>, by 2050, the global population will be 9.8 billion. Getting food production to be as effective as possible is not only an economic challenge, it is also a worldwide urgency.
New vineyard project developed with Libelium IoT platform on Agrotech, the app for crop management, powered by Efor and Ibercaja on Microsoft Azure
Precision viticulture projects look for the maximization of the oenology potential of the vineyards, adapting to extreme conditions, to obtain higher quality and better productivity of the vintage. Agricultural IoT projects provide efficiency, sustainability, optimization of natural resources and traceability.<
Libelium summarizes the most demanded features of IoT technology for Smart Agriculture in a new Quick Report
<p> Improving agricultural productivity requires investments in smart IoT technologies. This allows agricultural producers to obtain <strong>data for better controlling crop growth, preventing losses</strong> caused by adverse weather conditions or infectious pests and thus,<strong> facilitating the return on investments. </strong> </p> <p> As the return on investments can be quantified in terms of actual numbers, <strong>Libelium has summarized in this new Quick Report the direct benefits of a Smart Agriculture Solution</strong> and the most demanded features that producers look for. Read more.</p>
New Weather Station Sensors integrated in Libelium’s IoT platform perform maximum accuracy
<p> Libelium has developed a project to <strong>test the accuracy of weather stations that includes its IoT platform</strong> in comparison with the professional station of AEMET. In order to do this, Libelium's engineering team installed two <a href="https://www.libelium.com/iot-products/plug-sense/" title="Plug & Sense!">Plug & Sense!</a> nodes in the <a href="http://www.cusvaldespartera.es/" title="CUS Zaragoza" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sustainable Urbanism Center of Zaragoza</a> (Spain) requesting permission from AEMET to carry out the measurements in the same location and <strong>under the same conditions as its reference station.</strong> </p> <p> The results obtained in the comparative study show that <strong>the station behaves in parallel and with the same precision as the official AEMET meteorological station,</strong> both in terms of wind speed and direction and in terms of accumulated precipitation parameters. <a href="https://www.libelium.com/libeliumworld/success-stories/new-weather-station-sensors-integrated-in-libeliums-iot-platform-perform-maximum-accuracy/" title="Read more">Read more</a>. </p>
The IoT Marketplace by Libelium shows at IoT Solutions World Congress more than 100 solutions to improve sustainability and competitiveness
<p> Libelium participates in IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona with The IoT Marketplace as the guest star of the booth. This online store actually offers<strong> more than 100 kits</strong> ready to be deployed, including hardware devices and software visualization, for different applications that <strong>improve the sustainability and the competitiveness. </strong>The most demanded solutions exhibited revolves around monitoring different agriculture crops, water quality management, fish farms supervision, air quality control, applications for smart buildings and factories, fire and flood prevention, smart parking, among others. </p> <a rel="prettyPhoto-img[43094]" title="Libelium is present at The IoT Solutions World Congress 2018" href="https://web-libelium.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/2018/09/libelium_iot_rrss.jpg"><img src="https://web-libelium.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/2018/09/libelium_iot_rrss.jpg" alt="Libelium is present at The IoT Solutions World Congress 2018" width="500" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-43139" /></a> <p> The IoT Solutions World Congress, to be held in Barcelona between the 16<sup>th</sup> and the 18<sup>th</sup> October 2018, is <strong>a unique event dedicated exclusively to join IoT providers with different productive sectors</strong> to increase their productivity via this disruptive technology. Read more. </p>
Libelium adds Gill Instruments’ professional weather stations to its agriculture solution
<p> Libelium enlarges its portfolio by <strong>adding 14 new professional weather stations</strong> from its partner <a href="https://gillinstruments.com/" title="Gill Instruments" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gill Instruments</a>. In June 2018, <a href="https://www.libelium.com/libeliumworld/libeliums-new-smart-agriculture-xtreme-sensor-node-provides-maximum-accuracy-for-crop-monitoring/" title="Libelium’s new Smart Agriculture Xtreme Sensor Node Provides Maximum Accuracy for Crop Monitoring">Libelium launched the new Smart Agriculture Xtreme sensor node</a>, a solution which featured 19 sensors from the most prestigious and reliable manufacturers such as Gill Instruments, Apogee, Decagon and Ecomatik. </p> <p> Given the success of this integration, Libelium and Gill Instruments decided to amplify their collaboration by <strong>integrating all MaxiMet weather stations line</strong> to <a href="https://www.libelium.com/iot-products/" title="Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Agriculture Xtreme">Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Agriculture Xtreme</a>. Read more. </p>
Libelium’s new Smart Agriculture Xtreme Sensor Node Provides Maximum Accuracy for Crop Monitoring
<p> Responding to <strong>the growing demand of precision</strong> from the smart agriculture devices market, <strong>Libelium releases a new version of its Smart Agriculture sensor node</strong> improving <strong>maximum accuracy</strong> for crop monitoring. The enhanced <a href="https://www.libelium.com/iot-products/" title="Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Agriculture Xtreme">Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Agriculture Xtreme</a> device includes <strong>top market performance sensors</strong> for the most exigent field applications such as vineyards, fruit orchards and greenhouse cultivations, among others. </p> <p> The new solution features <strong>19 sensors from the most prestigious and reliable manufacturers</strong> of agricultural technology such as <strong>Apogee, Decagon, Ecomatik and Gill Instruments</strong>. This integration enables the measuring of different parameters related to weather conditions, light and radiation levels, soil morphology, fertilizers presence, frost prevention, daily growth of plants and fruits and other environmental parameters to improve crop quality production and to prevent harvest losses. <a href="https://www.libelium.com/libeliumworld/libeliums-new-smart-agriculture-xtreme-sensor-node-provides-maximum-accuracy-for-crop-monitoring/" title="Read more">Read more</a>. </p>
Smart Wine: Libelium’s IoT technology allows predictive control of vineyards in the Pago Aylés winery, Spain
The Pago Aylés winery</a> has invested in an IoT project with Libelium technology in order to gain efficient production and a predictive vineyard management model. Leading to the best decisions based on objective data.
The first Smart Vineyard in Lebanon chooses Libelium’s technology to face the climate change
Precision agriculture is gaining presence among the most delicate and challenging cultivations.
Smart Agriculture project in Salerno (Italy) to monitor “baby leaves” fourth-generation vegetables production for an efficient use of fertilizers and irrigation
<p>Libelium's technology along with <a href="https://www.evja.eu/" title="EVJA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">EVJA</a> OPI platform play a critical role in the technological revolution of the agriculture sector, providing the farmers <strong>new analysis and forecast tools that helps them to improve their production.</strong> <a href="https://www.libelium.com/libeliumworld/success-stories/smart-agriculture-project-in-salerno-italy-to-monitor-baby-leaves-fourth-generation-vegetables-production-for-an-efficient-use-of-fertilizers-and-irrigation/" title="Read more">Read more</a>. </p>