Using the FarmBeats Student Kit to learn more about IoT, Digital Agriculture and Precision Farming
FarmBeats is a venture of Microsoft Research that was launched in 2015 as a prototype for an Internet of Things (IoT) platform for agriculture. Stemming from the concept of Digital Agriculture, it uses technologies such as low-cost sensors, drones, vision, white space, cloud computing and Machine Learning algorithms to combat very little or no-power in farms. Consequently, the FarmBeats platform has not only allowed for real-time seamless data collection from sensors, cameras and drones but also for storage and complex processing within Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, known as Microsoft Azure.
