Increase crop production
Farmers, agriculture businesses, and governments need real-time data on their crop and climate to improve their yield to meet consumer demand. In vast and often remote fields, Wi-Fi isn’t an option. Here’s how Cellular IoT can help.
Reinvent farming with Cellular IoT
Remotely monitor field sensors anywhere, without the need for Wi-Fi
Power connectivity for autonomous farm vehicles
Get real-time insights on when to plant, water, fertilize, and harvest crops
Smart irrigation
Smart irrigation sensors monitor soil moisture levels in real time. This enables farmers to adjust watering schedules accordingly, helping to reduce water use and optimize water times for crops. Not only can farmers realize significant cost savings, they can move closer to sustainable farming.
Crop management
Sensors equipped with Cellular IoT connectivity can provide detailed insights into crop health, growth stages, and environmental conditions for precision farming. Fieldin, the world's largest smart farm operations company, uses Hologram to improve farming efficiency.
Drones
Visibility into crop health is challenging, particularly in vast commercial farms that average nearly 500 acres in the US. In addition to video, drones can use thermal and multispectral sensors to help determine the health of crops. They also empower farmers to more precisely spray fertilizers, pesticides, and seeds to help reduce product usage and save money.
Autonomous vehicles
Non-stop connectivity is critical for automated machinery like tractors that are helping farmers with labor shortages. These vehicles rely on large quantities of real-time data for analysis, often in places with poor connectivity that need the reliability provided by Cellular IoT.
Robots
Farmers are increasingly deploying robots across their operations for efficiency and precision. Robots include general purpose robots that carry implements, specialized robots that perform weed removal and spraying to harvest robots. By using 3D cameras, harvest robots can evaluate the data to determine if the produce is at the right stage of ripeness to be harvested.
FAQs
Our devices will be used across the globe. What should we consider when building out our connectivity?
Whether you are building a new product or expanding an existing product line to a new market, there are key considerations that can set you up for success. The first question you might ask is "Will my SIM connect in a new market?" While that's a great place to start, there are many other questions you should ask and factors to think about before expanding into a new market. Read our eBook An Innovator’s Guide to Global IoT Deployments to learn more.
These devices are also very geographically dispersed on our farms. How do you help us keep track of their status?
The Hologram Dashboard enables customers to track data of thousands of devices like our smart farming customer Arable. While helping cacao producers in Ecuador, the Arable team noticed a cacao field they were monitoring was producing bizarre data. They found the irrigation system had been down and wasn’t properly watering the field. If that loss hadn’t been caught by Arable’s data monitoring, it could have cost the producers 25% of their revenue. Read more in this customer story.
As we move to automation, we need a connectivity solution that can handle high data volumes. Tell me about your high data plans?
Hologram offers native, high-performance 5G and 4G LTE networks to ensure performance and bundled high usage data pricing plans. This enables you to choose a monthly device plan with an allotted number of gigabytes for ultimate predictability and affordability. Check out more about high data usage IoT.
“Hologram gives us the ability to switch networks as needed and work with one vendor, not a lot of vendors.”
Yonatan Horovitz
Co-founder & Chief Autonomy Officer
Move your farm into the future
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