text: Agriculture | LoRa Alliance®
  Modern Agribusiness heavily depends on the ability to efficiently manage resources in order to reduce environmental impact, minimize cost and maximize yield. Farmers face an interconnected host of challenges and, therefore, are interested in incorporating innovative technological solutions. IoT devices have provided the ability to automatically monitor crops and animals, providing valuable data that has traditionally been collected manually, as well as controlling systems and equipment throughout an operation.
  By dispersing sensors connected to their phones or computers, farmers instantly retrieve data on soil temperature and moisture, pollution levels, weather conditions and rainfall, crop growth, livestock conditions and location, as well as receive alerts on fire or theft and activate irrigation equipment. All collected data will feed decision management tools to assist the farmer to make the right decision at the right time to optimize results and ensure the sustainability of his farm.
  These incredible powers depend on a low-cost, flexibly deployed network infrastructure, where gateways can be added at any time, and one that enables the transmission of data from sensor to farmers' devices over long distances in often remote locations, where cellular coverage may be poor at best.