Analog Devices’ Monitoring Initiative Aims to Improve Crop Quality and Yields and Boost Profitability of Local Farmers
23 August 2017 - 5:30PM
Business Wire
Analog Devices, Inc. announced today a collaboration with The
Cornucopia Project and ripe.io to explore the local food supply
chain and use this work as a vehicle for educating students at
ConVal Regional High School in Peterborough, N.H., and local
farmers on 21st century agriculture skills. The initiative
instructs student farmers how to use Internet of Things and
blockchain technologies to track the conditions and movement of
produce from “Farm to Fork” to make decisions that improve quality,
yields, and profitability. Together with the Cornucopia Project,
the endeavor is funded by Analog Devices and ripe.io, with both
companies also providing technical training.
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Analog Devices Smart Agriculture Manager
Erick Olsen (center) and Senior Engineer Rob O'Reilly are pictured
alongside ConVal Regional High School Farm to Fork Fellows viewing
tomatoes grown with the company's crop monitoring solution. (Photo:
Business Wire)
For the project, Analog Devices is providing a prototype version
of its crop monitoring solution, which will be capable of measuring
environmental factors that help farmers make sound decisions about
crops related to irrigation, fertilization, pest management, and
harvesting. The sensor-to-cloud, Internet of Things solution
enables farmers to make better decisions based on accumulated
learning from the near-real-time monitoring. These 24/7
measurements are combined with a near infrared (NIR) miniaturized
spectrometer that conducts non-destructive analysis of food quality
not previously possible in a farm environment.
- Learn more about Analog Devices’ crop
monitoring solution and how the company is working with local
farmers:
http://www.analog.com/en/landing-pages/001/iot-internet-of-tomatoes.html
“This project expands on our ‘Internet of Tomatoes’ program
which empowers farmers to make better decisions throughout the
growing cycle, improving quality, economic, and environmental
outcomes,” said Kevin Carlin, vice president, Automation, Energy
and Sensors, Analog Devices. “Our crop monitoring solution will
provide reliable and precise information to student farmers and
local farmers so they can grow healthier, fresher, better tasting
produce. It demonstrates how a crop monitoring solution extends the
value and possibilities of the Internet of Things in truly
transformative ways.”
The Cornucopia Project, a non-profit located in Peterborough,
N.H., provides garden and agricultural programs to students from
elementary through high school. Student farmers in its Farm to Fork
program learn how to use advanced sensor instrumentation in their
greenhouse, which provide valuable data to assess the attributes of
tomatoes, and how these factors affect taste and quality. The
program also educates students on how crops can be tracked
throughout the agricultural supply chain to support food quality,
sustainability, traceability, and nutrition.
“Analog Devices is helping us explore how advances in technology
can support local food systems,” said Karen Hatcher, executive
director, The Cornucopia Project. “We are training next-generation
farmers in 21st century agriculture to harvest tastier, more
abundant and more sustainably grown tomatoes than ever before. This
initiative will contribute to enhancing the economic health and
vitality of local small- and medium-size farms and the communities
that support them.”
ripe.io is contributing its blockchain technology to model the
entire fresh produce supply chain, combining the crop growing data,
transportation, and storage conditions. Blockchain – a distributed
ledger, consensus data technology that is used to maintain a
continuously growing list of records – will track crop lifecycle
from seed to distributor to retailer to consumer, bringing
transparency and accountability to the agricultural supply
chain.
“This project is one of the first implementations of blockchain
technology to build an open and transparent supply chain with
farmers, suppliers, distributors, retailers, food service, and end
consumers,” said Raja Ramachandran, CEO of ripe.io. “What is
learned in the initiative not only will improve quality, economic,
and environmental outcomes in the local farming community, but also
can be extended to other farms and crop species around the
country.”
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