Recently, John Deere’s collaboration with SpaceX to provide SATCOM service to farmers has captured significant attention. With a target of connecting 1.5 million machines globally by 2026, John Deere aims to revolutionize farming operations. The partnership with Starlink will enable technologies such as autonomy, real-time data sharing, and remote diagnostics, empowering farmers worldwide.
While John Deere and Starlink’s collaboration promises widespread connectivity, alternative solutions are emerging rapidly. Future Farming explores four other noteworthy connectivity options, offering insights into the evolving landscape of on-farm connectivity.
Connected Farms How does your technology work? Connected Farms provides complete fence-to-fence connectivity services from satellite to mobile phone messenger device through to satellite on the move and private networks. This encompasses many solutions to ensure that farmers and agribusiness receive the appropriate connectivity solution that matches their needs.What hardware does a farmer need to purchase? What do farmers need to use this system? Can it be used on machines? Where is it available (in what countries?) The solutions of Connected Farms are designed to be mounted on machines and vehicles or provide coverage that can be integrated into the machines systems and technology. - Photo: Connected Farms How reliable is it in daily use on the farm? How can farmers integrate it with existing software systems on a farm (of machines and other data platforms)? What are the costs of using the system for farmers?
Ag Leader How does your technology work? What hardware does a farmer need to purchase? Ag Leader is very versatile in what we can do, support and we offer growers a year-round solution with a comprehensive product line-up.What do farmers need to use this system? The systems of Ag Leader can be installed on farm vehicles of almost any age. SeedCommand and InCommand allow precise planter monitoring. - Photo: Ag Leader Where is it available? How reliable is it in daily use? How can farmers integrate it with existing software systems on a farm (software of machines and other data platforms)? Through a GIS software they can. We offer a GIS software, SMS, which is very good at reading log files from almost any brand of precision ag display and can also export out to those various displays.What are the costs of using this system for farmers?
TerraFlex (Trimble) TerraFlex allows field data collection on any modern Android or iOS device. – Photo: Trimble How does your technology work? TerraFlex is an easy-to-use solution for collecting accurate field data. Farmers can build flexible forms to capture information about on-farm assets, including their precise location and images. In a farming context, TerraFlex can be used to precisely measure field boundaries, capture the location of obstacles or hazards within fields, complete health and safety checklists, and document damage to farm machinery or implements. This data is then synchronised to the TerraFlex cloud application where it can be reviewed, and then exported.
What hardware does a farmer need to purchase? What do farmers need to use this system? Where is it available? How reliable is it in daily use? How can farmers integrate it with existing software systems on a farm (software of machines and other data platforms)? What are the costs of using this system for farmers?
Myriota What sort of technology does Myriota offer farmers? Myriota delivers direct-to-satellite IoT connectivity to help the agriculture industry with efficient, reliable solutions that enable sensing of anything, anywhere. Our network delivers scalable, affordable IoT data services and energy-efficient hardware. 4 A partnership between Taggle Systems and Myriota has paved the way for efficient water consumption data collection from remote locations. - Photo: Myriota What hardware do farmers need to purchase to use it ?Where is it available (in what countries?) How reliable is it in daily use on the farm? How can farmers integrate it with existing software systems on a farm? What are the costs for farmers?
