Vertical: smart-agriculture
Precision Agriculture: Predicting Vineyard Conditions, Preventing Disease
Dolphin Engineering, a startup company based in Lugano, Switzerland, monitors vineyard conditions to prevent plant diseases using a wireless sensor network based on Libelium's <strong>Waspmote</strong> sensor platform. In Slovenia, Elmitel has developed a Cloud platform core, Elmitel Sensing, to create a Waspmote-based vineyard monitoring solution to cover all three parts of a sensor network: <strong>data acquisition, storage, and processing</strong>.
Smart Agriculture: Monitoring greenhouse conditions to develop new products in the food industry
<p><strong>Flores en la mesa</strong> is an Aragonese company that grows and sells fresh <strong>edible flowers</strong> and crystallized flowers. These unusual products are based on plants that are carefully grown, free from chemicals, intended for human consumption. Crystallization is done by hand, slowly, to respect the anatomy of the flower and to preserve its shape and aroma. <a href="https://www.libelium.com/libeliumworld/success-stories/smart-agriculture-monitoring-greenhouse-conditions-to-develop-new-products-in-the-food-industry/">Read more</a>.</p>
Reading Beehives: Smart Sensor Technology Monitors Bee Health and Global Pollination
<p>Award-winning smart beehive project is <strong>a unique platform to monitor honey bees remotely and in real time</strong>, within the hive. A group of biology, food business, and embedded systems engineering students at <strong>University College of Cork in Ireland</strong> has developed a unique platform through which they are able to monitor, collect and analyze activity within the colonies unobtrusively. <a href="https://www.libelium.com/libeliumworld/success-stories/temperature-humidity-and-gases-monitoring-in-beehives/">Read more</a>.</p>
Sensors Mag “Smart Viticulture Project in Spain Uses Sensor Devices to Harvest Healthier, More Abundant Grapes for Coveted Albariño Wines”
Smart applications are becoming more prevalent in big cities and urban environments and in the countryside as well. Smart agriculture brings state-of-the-art technology to an industry where the plow and sickle have ruled for thousands of years.