Augmenting Poultry Farming's Visibility into Distribution Networks
The farmers of today face increasing pressure to provide quality, safe, and traceable food. Step up IoT technology in smart agriculture practices, empowering smarter decision- making for managing livestock, crops, infrastructure, the environment, and more. IoT offers solutions for automation, data collection, analysis, security, and preventative maintenance, translating to increased efficiency, risk mitigation, and cost reduction.
Poultry farming is a prime example of an industry revolutionized by IoT, with IoT solutions facilitating real-time, accurate monitoring of environmental and health indicators. PrognostiX Poultry Sense IoT solution, a pioneer in this field, gathers data across both environmental and health parameters, contributing to improvements in bird performance, economics, and welfare.
PrognostiX Poultry Sense: Empowering Farmers with AI
PrognostiX Poultry Sense solution combines the expertise of vets, engineers, and data analysts, providing farmers with precise, real-time insights to make smarter, data-driven farming decisions. With successful deployment on several farms, this IoT solution can seamlessly manage a vast number of sensors from various manufacturers, collecting and analyzing large volumes of real-time data over long ranges.
The Poultry Sense offering comprises four key solutions: a market-leading wireless temperature and humidity sensor (Sense node), a low-cost rechargeable wireless multi-parameter sensor (Next-Gen Sense node), an ultrasonic water meter (Water Sense), and a wireless, portable floor-mounted weigh platform (Weigh Sense).
PrognostiX and LoRaWAN Gateways: The Perfect Match
PrognostiX utilizes LoRaWAN gateways, like our carrier-grade KONA Macro and KONA Micro, to ensure secure, long-range connectivity for their innovative Poultry Sense solution. Leveraging LoRaWAN’s advantages in cost-effectiveness, scalability, and bi-directional communication, these gateways enable real-time sensor data transmission securely, over long distances.
Through dedication to achieving thousands of end device nodes with connectivity exceeding 10km, PrognostiX continues to pioneer the application of LoRaWAN technology in the realm of smart agriculture.
Case Study: Monitoring and Enhancing Poultry Farm Performance
A customer managing 700,000 birds across 7 farms required a wireless solution for accurate, real-time monitoring of critical parameters such as climate, water consumption, and bird weights. Prior to implementing Poultry Sense, this customer manually took readings of temperature and humidity conditions, leading to a lengthy and inefficient process.
Now, armed with Poultry Sense solutions like sense nodes for temperature and humidity, water consumption sensors, and wireless weighing platforms, the customer can efficiently capture, track, and interpret real-time data, ensuring optimal environmental conditions and higher production levels.
In conclusion, LoRaWAN technology emerges as a game-changer in the world of smart agriculture, enabling scalable, remote monitoring solutions for poultry farming, improving biosecurity, animal welfare, and operational efficiency. By harnessing the power of IoT and LoRaWAN technology, farmers can strive towards sustainable, productive practices for both their flocks and bottom lines.
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Poultry Sense IoT solution, implemented on several farms, combines multiple sensors from various manufacturers to collect and analyze large volumes of real-time data over long ranges, thereby contributing to improvements in bird performance, economics, and welfare. With low-cost rechargeable multi-parameter sensors and wireless weigh platforms, this technology allows farmers to efficiently capture, track, and interpret real-time data for optimized environmental conditions and higher production levels.
Smart agriculture practices leveraging data-and-cloud-computing technology, such as PrognostiX Poultry Sense, facilitate the management of sensors, infrastructure, and environmental indicators in a cost-effective and scalable manner, leading to increased efficiency, risk mitigation, and cost reduction. By integrating gateways like the KONA Macro and KONA Micro, this solution ensures secure, long-range connectivity for real-time sensor data transmission, using LoRaWAN technology.
