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How will drones impact the agricultural industry
Website Editor • Apr 08, 2019
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Technology is changing almost every aspect of life. Technological advances are making every-day tasks much easier for society. We think almost everyone can agree on the fact that technology is transforming every industry around us today. It’s the companies today that choose not to embrace emerging technology that unfortunately may not survive their competition.
This includes the agricultural industry. Being labour intensive, emerging technology such as drones can revolutionise the industry for the better. Drones within this industry can be used for anything from surveillance of crops, detection of crop diseases and even spraying pesticides.
The use of such technology in agriculture is also referred to as smart farming. This term ultimately looks to help farmers produce food more efficiently while improving its overall quality sustainably through emerging technology. With agriculture being the most vital industry in the world, it’s more important than ever to embrace emerging technology in the industry.
As the world’s population keeps growing, it’s expected that the rise in demand for food will increase significantly putting pressure on the agricultural industry. Currently, the world population is estimated to be 7.3 billion. The United Nations (UN)
predicts it will reach 9.7 billion by 2050.
What does this mean for the agricultural industry? To combat the growth in population the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation
has predicted that food production will need to be boosted by 70% over the next several decades. Ultimately making the idea of the smart farm essential to the agricultural industry being able to cope with the boost of production needed.
Research points to the idea that we may not be able to in fact cope with the increasing demand of produce needed with the population growth expected to significantly rise. Keeping this in mind, the time to implement smart farming is now. Improving the way farming is done, is of utmost importance not only making farmer’s lives easier but also increasing their produce. Smart farming takes the hassle out of some of the most tedious tasks and allows farmers to focus their time on what is most important.
Drones can be utilised in many ways to help with irrigation, crop health, spraying, screening, planting and even analysis of the soil. Pairing IoT and drones together increase capabilities of the emerging technology. With the use of IoT sensors, farmers are able to automate their agricultural system. Together with IoT and drones, the ease of use and implementing them into their every-day lives will significantly enhance their ability and ease to produce while meeting increasing growth and production expectations.
Data analysis is allowing the agricultural industry and farmers to predict more accurately. Prediction has become very important to farmers; however, predictions alone can be difficult, time-consuming and predictably they may not necessarily be right at the end of the day. The emphasis on predictions are becoming even more important with the increasing expectations of production and severe weather that may be experienced in rural areas affecting the crops. This makes the use of drones even more important with the insights it can offer.
It goes without saying that there are detrimental effects to crops if accurate information is not known, making the collection of data from emerging technology significant. The use of drones will allow agriculture to become more profitable and create greater awareness of smart farming and its benefits. The idea of incorporating emerging technology as mentioned is to essentially digitalise the agricultural industry improving profits, decreasing waste, improving efficiency and becoming more sustainable.
For example, Microsoft has leveraged this concept in one of its projects called Farm Beats
using drones and sensors to monitor the crop area. Essentially the information collected can assist with soil moisture, PH levels, feed supply, and environmental conditions. With the lack of WiFi coverage of some providers in rural areas, Microsoft has combatted this by using TV whitespaces to overlay Wi-Fi signals allowing farmers to easily gain access to information collected. Smart farming will transform the agricultural industry as a whole.
IoT Hub
believes by the year 2020 there will be 75 million IoT devices for the agricultural industry. With the undeniable power of data, the agricultural industry will transform fast with the concept of smart farming. The use of drones empowers this notion and brings power back to farmers allowing them to utilise the data and make smart decisions based on data collected. Imagine how farmers will be able to transform their every-day tasks with the use of drones and other emerging technology.
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