The Internet of Things or IoT presents farmers with new opportunities for improved management, crop yield, livestock monitoring, security, and more.

As Climate Change, Population growth, and macro influences such as load-shedding continuously place pressure on farmers to produce more, the question should be, how can farmers keep up with the demand, and do it more efficiently?

The adoption of IoT in agriculture is one such step that farmers can implement to move towards smart and efficient farming.

Let's look at a solution from Milesight that offer the whole smart irrigation solution including a soil moisture sensor, solenoid valve controller, and the Outdoor LoRaWAN gateway. By adopting Milesight smart irrigation, operations are streamlined, resulting in water and energy savings. When the soil moisture sensor detects a deficiency, it will send out an alter to the cloud-hosted management platform to inform users through app notifications or e-mails. Users can manage irrigation remotely based on the data, through the solenoid valve controller. LoRaWAN consumes less power when compared to alternative IoT technology and allows for battery operation. The whole smart irrigation solution is easy to deploy due to its simple and intuitive architecture.

The Milesight Solenoid Valve controller works with 12VDC solenoid latch valves and offers 2x2 outputs, with a built-in solar panel and lithium battery for longer operations.