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Next-generation solutions for OEMs and farming operations, including precision agriculture, remote monitoring, automation, and management of critical tasks in fields, barns and greenhouses

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Precision agriculture applications require secure, robust IoT solutions to automate, manage and monitor processes

Automation and remote management are enabling farms to modernize and automate their operations, gain insights from feeding systems, tanks, irrigation systems and other equipment across vast acreage, and reduce the use of precious resources.

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Farming automation

From irrigation systems to gates and valves, to livestock feeding systems, the IoT is driving the adoption of a vast range of automation use cases across agricultural operations. These systems can reduce truck rolls to remote sites and excess personnel costs, saving time, money and resources.

Real-time monitoring and alerts

Sensors and IoT devices deployed in barns, greenhouses, silos, and across farmland can provide live updates about crop, soil and livestock conditions, enabling swift action to address potential issues such as pest infestations, disease outbreaks, or adverse weather conditions.

Predictive maintenance

Today, IoT solutions help farming operations to be more proactive — with rapid notifications when leaks or other problems are detected in tanks, silos and irrigation systems, or when equipment is at risk of failure. This enables operators to address issues before they escalate.

Increase yields, reduce costs and farm more sustainably with Digi IoT solutions for agriculture

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Across the agricultural industry, the use of sensors, IoT devices and wireless communications enable farming operations to maximize yield, control costs and manage environmental resources. Digi technology helps farmers and ranchers meet business goals with connectivity solutions for bin monitoring, irrigation, precision agriculture, livestock management and more. Secure, cost-effective connectivity provides real-time access to data, precision application of nutrients and automated control of labor-intensive tasks.

Precision

Gain pinpoint control over farm operations such as irrigation, fertilization, feed management and harvesting.

Visibility

Get rapid insights with remote monitoring of tank levels, soil conditions, temperature and humidity in green houses and barns, and much more.

Sustainability

Reduce your operations’ water usage and carbon footprint with IoT solutions that increase yields, reduce the use of fossil fuels and improve environmental reporting.

Safety

Utilize IoT sensing and automation in hazardous environments to minimize the need for manual labor around heavy machinery, chemicals, and in challenging environments.

Connectivity is cultivating change across the agricultural landscape

A sugar cane grower gets a middle-of-the-night phone alert that rainstorms are increasing soil moisture levels. The farmer taps a button to activate pumphouse gates, pulling moisture from the fields into irrigation canals.

A dairy farmer contains cattle remotely using wireless virtual fencing and ear tag sensors — and can even humanely steer animals to a new pasture for grazing.

A soybean farmer uses camera feeds on irrigation pivots to identify specific pests in the fields and act accordingly.

A cattle farmer monitors the health of cows on a mobile app, viewing aggregate data as well as detecting fever in individual animals.

A corn grower uses satellite or drone imagery of field health to fine-tune automated irrigation or fertilization, even down to individual rows of plants.

Digi solutions support the full gamut of agricultural use cases. Here are just a few examples.

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Bin Monitoring Gain centralized, real-time data from grain bins and silos without costly wiring and trenching. Increase worker safety by eliminating manual checks in potentially hazardous environments.

Irrigation Increase system capabilities from soil sensing to remote instrumentation of pumps and canals. Fine-tune irrigation schedules based on real-time data. Improve groundwater reporting to meet ever-evolving regulations.

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Greenhouse Management Keep tabs on conditions in greenhouses, including ambient temperature and soil moisture. Automate watering systems. Or move into the next generation of greenhouse automation with automated harvesting.

Livestock Management Increase efficiency and optimize animal health with real-time monitoring and control of feed bins, barns and pens as well as livestock health with the use of RFID tags.