Re-thinking Farming with IoT
What if you you could put an IoT devices on every plant in a 200 Acre greenhouse. How would it change farming?
I got to sit down with Keith Bradley, VP of IT at Nature Fresh Farms, during VMware Explore in Barcelona, Spain. Keith manages an IoT environment of 1.5 million devices that generate 25GB of data a season. That’s roughly 37PB of data a growing season. Since it’s a greenhouse, they can grow year around.
We talked about both the technical challenges and the business opportunities of controlling the environment of each plant. From growers turned data scientists to 5G at the edge, it was a fascinating conversation.