Using data captured by IoT sensors and then analysed with Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, Zyter’s solution is able to give farmers and agronomists a comprehensive virtual view of the farm ecosystem with emphasis on automating and improving standard crop management practices to achieve more sustainable, precision agriculture.
Zyter Smart Agriculture gathers data on soil and atmospheric conditions from a network of IoT sensors buried in the ground and placed in various locations across the farm. In-ground sensors monitor measurement data that indicates soil health, including moisture, nutrients, and solar radiation levels.
Other IoT-enabled devices, such as weather stations, are able to generate temperature, precipitation, wind speed, and air quality measurements.
All data is displayed in an intuitive graphical interface on the Zyter Smart Agriculture dashboard and mobile app. The solution also displays notifications and alerts of soil readings that are out of optimal range - giving farmers a more accurate view of conditions.
“Today’s farmers are challenged to produce more yield to meet the growing global demand for food supplies, but with fewer labour resources,” said Sanjay Govil, founder and CEO of Zyter. “Zyter Smart Agriculture helps farmers increase efficiency and improve crop yield with precision agriculture practices, greater insights and more informed decision making.”
Additional key features of Zyter Smart Agriculture include:
- AI-Based Actionable Insights – The AI component of Zyter Smart Agriculture analyses the streams of IoT sensor data over time to provide predictive analytics and suggestions of actions farmers can take to ensure an optimised yield. Farmers and agronomists will be able to use these actionable insights to make more informed decisions on crop location, nutrients, irrigation, pest control, and other crop management actions.
- Drone-based Inspections with AI Imagery – Drones outfitted with AI imagery technology automates the manual task of physically inspecting crop fields. The AI technology learns over time what healthy crops should look like and what conditions are ideal to support them. This data is fed into Zyter Smart Agriculture and analysed to provide additional actionable insights for attaining maximum crop yields.
Zyter Smart Agriculture is one of the pre-configured IoT-based solutions that run on the Zyter SmartSpaces platform that provides support for the Qualcomm IoT Services Suite through which Zyter and Qualcomm Technologies can support organisations looking to adopt smart solutions through adopting IoTaaS.
