IoT sensors helping farmers boost production

Abu Dhabi-based agritech company Silal is teaming up with a Dutch horticultural-software provider Hoogendoorn to deploy IoT sensors across 100 farms this year in an effort to boost agricultural production in the United Arab Emirates.

The project, to be known as the Digital Agronomy Service, aims to help local farmers and advisers make smart decisions when it comes to crop management, fertilization and irrigation and thereby maximize the amount of locally grown produce available for consumption.

The service will deploy a wide range of sensors to measure environmental conditions that can affect the health of the crop, including temperature, humidity, vapor difference, radiation, pH, soil moisture, electric conductivity and more. The sensors will also track crop growth and needs, such as water, energy, CO2, fertilizers and agrichemical applications.

Silal’s agricultural engineers will then use AI-powered computers to process the data and help the company devise prudent crop-growth plans and projects.

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