Agritech firms to watch using IoT and edge computing and cloud platforms paired with network access

Agritech firms to watch using IoT and edge computing and cloud platforms, when paired with network access, are reinventing agriculture to feed the world's rising population. These pioneering firms, which provide vertical farms, cloud platforms, and robots, are now expanding operations and creating the next future of agriculture.  

Bowery Farming: The Future of vertical farms bowery farming introduced Glenn Wells as the company's new senior vice president of sales and reported that revenue has increased for the second year in a row. Bowery Farming is also on track to more than quadruple its farm count this year. Bowery Farming has established itself as the largest vertical farming enterprise in the United States. The firm produces food inside using unique technologies, AI, robots, and IoT to maximize quality while minimizing resource consumption. When compared to conventional agriculture, the business says that its spaces can produce 30 times the amount of crop. At Bowery Farming's vertical farms, an army of sensors, IoT, and automated robots is deployed throughout the whole lifespan. Crops are grown in special palletized trays that are moved and monitored by technology. Machine learning algorithms for these high-density agricultural systems are driven by sensors that supply the BoweryOS platform with light, temperature, humidity, and data on specialized demands for each species.

Trilogy Networks, Veea, and Microclimates partner up: The firm launched a new collaboration with Veea and Microclimates, a startup specializing in smart climate-controlled environment management. The plan is to integrate their technologies and platforms into a single agritech solution. The new Trilogy platform enables farmers and businesses to gather, compute, and safeguard data at the edge in order to increase operational efficiency and save expenses. Veea offers a uniform connection fabric that allows for communication across the cloud, endpoints, edges, and devices. Farms have always struggled with temperature monitoring, humidity, a lack of real-time data, and winter heating expenditures. Precision farming technology enables farmers to take use of private business wireless connectivity (including 5G) and wireless controls that can be automated for tasks ranging from soil control to irrigation.

Advances for Advanced. Farm and Blue White Robotics: Another key agritech development is robotic IoT heavy machinery, and the technology is fast expanding. Advanced. The farm creates hybrid-electric drive systems, self-navigating farm gear, robotic arms, soft-food grippers, and tray stacking technology. They also provide software emulators to customers, allowing them to test new robotic automation features in digital twin real-world simulations prior to implementation. The advanced. The farm specializes in soft-safe food grasping technology, which has the accuracy and delicacy needed to handle the operation while still being durable and resilient enough to resist outside environmental variables and repetitive activities. The startup uses computer vision and machine learning to enable its robots to autonomously roam fields and gather fruit, with the ability to run up to 24 hours a day.

Food for thought: The pillars of the 4.0 industrial revolution include small and heavy IoT machines, drones, AI and machine learning edge-cloud platforms, with every industry adopting the technologies. Agriculture is no different.