The Peggy Smedley Show: IoT Measures and Manages Plants

IoT Measures and Manages Plants
IoT Measures and Manages Plants

Providing data to farmers is the best thing we can do to be more productive and protective of our environments, explains James Schnable of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Peggy chats with James Schnable, assistant professor, Dept. of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, who says the way he would measure anything about plants in the past would be to send students to the field. Now, this can be done in an automated fashion, which is a lot better than sending grad students out there, he explains. Having historical data from drones is going to be very valuable in the future, he continues, and the cost is very affordable. More advanced technologies, like robots, are more expensive and may not make sense yet.

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