Semtech’s IoT Platform Monitors Soil Irrigation for Healthier Crops
18 July 2019 - 10:00PM
Business Wire
Oizom’s LoRa-based sensors reduce farm water
and electricity consumption by up to 26 percent
Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading supplier of high
performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced
algorithms, announced that Oizom, an Internet of Things (IoT)
solution provider for environmental applications, leveraged
Semtech’s LoRa® devices and Tata Communications’ LoRaWAN®-based
networking infrastructure for its new Agribot smart agriculture
solution.
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“As water becomes an increasingly rare and expensive resource
worldwide, smart agriculture solutions with Semtech’s LoRa devices
allow farmers to accurately monitor their irrigation systems,” said
Sohil Patel, Chief Technology Officer at Oizom. “The LoRa-based
Agribot sensor is easy to install and leverages the LoRaWAN
protocol to provide accurate soil irrigation data, even in areas
without Cellular coverage. With access to sensor data, farmers can
optimize their water usage and create smarter, more efficient and
profitable farms.”
Agribot is a LoRa-enabled wireless IoT system that offers
farmers real-time insight into the health of their crops by
monitoring soil conditions including humidity and pH. The sensor
also leverages LoRa to monitor water level for wet crops such as
rice. Data from LoRa-based sensors allow farmers to make smarter
decisions in the irrigation of their crops, improving crop yield. A
recent pilot project of Agribot in Tirupati, India resulted in a
reduction of farm water and electricity consumption by up to 26
percent following deployment. The sensors report soil condition
data through Cloud-based servers using LoRaWAN-based networks from
Tata Communications, a LoRa Alliance® member and leading global
network provider. LoRaWAN-based networks provide coverage up to 30
miles in rural areas, allowing agriculture sensors to connect to
the Cloud in areas with unreliable or nonexistent network
coverage.
“Semtech’s LoRa devices provide the proven feature set necessary
for real-time data monitoring and long range Cloud connectivity,
making it the optimal IoT solution for smart agriculture
applications,” said Marc Pegulu, Vice President of IoT for
Semtech’s Wireless and Sensing Products Group. “With LoRa devices
and the LoRaWAN protocol’s proven capabilities, Oizom is able to
accelerate a product to market quickly while capturing a wide range
of soil data in a variety of environmental temperatures.”
About Semtech’s LoRa® Devices
Semtech’s LoRa devices is a widely adopted long-range, low-power
solution for IoT that gives telecom companies, IoT application
makers and system integrators the feature set necessary to deploy
low-cost, interoperable IoT networks, gateways, sensors, module
products, and IoT services worldwide. IoT networks based on the
LoRaWAN® specification have been deployed in 100 countries and
Semtech is a founding member of the LoRa Alliance®, the fastest
growing IoT Alliance for Low Power Wide Area Network applications.
To learn more about how LoRa enables IoT, visit Semtech’s LoRa
site.
About Oizom
Oizom is an environmental solution company. Through strategic
installations, Oizom developed a dense data-grid of networked
instruments that help us understand air pollution and climate
change. Data monitoring allows for spotting and resolving the
sources of pollution. Oizom big data is the key to accurate
forecasting and change analysis of environmental conditions.
Oizom’s artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms identify unique
patterns in ecological dynamics and provide accurate forecasting
and predictions through machine learning. Read more on its website:
https://oizom.com/.
About Semtech
Semtech Corporation is a leading supplier of high performance
analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms for
high-end consumer, enterprise computing, communications, and
industrial equipment. Products are designed to benefit the
engineering community as well as the global community. The Company
is dedicated to reducing the impact it, and its products, have on
the environment. Internal green programs seek to reduce waste
through material and manufacturing control, use of green technology
and designing for resource reduction. Publicly traded since 1967,
Semtech is listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the
symbol SMTC. For more information, visit www.semtech.com.
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