Njengoba inani labantu emhlabeni wonke kulindeleke ukuthi lifinyelele ezigidini eziyizinkulungwane ezingu-9.7 ngo-2050, abalimi badinga lonke usizo abangaluthola ukuze bakhulise ukukhiqizwa, ikhwalithi, kanye nenani lokudla okunempilo kwemikhiqizo yezolimo. I-FarmBeats izobasiza ukuthi bafinyelele lokho.
"I-FarmBeats iyinkundla yezolimo yedijithali yokuhlanganisa idatha evela emithonjeni ehlukene endaweni efanayo," kusho USteven Mirsky, isazi semvelo socwaningo e-Agricultural Research Service's (ARS) Ilabhorethri Yezinhlelo Zezolimo Eziqhubekayo e-Beltsville, Md. "Ihlinzeka ngokuphathwa kwedatha futhi isiza ukwakha izindinganiso kumasistimu e-inthanethi Yezinto (IoT)."
I-IoT inethiwekhi yezinto ezibonakalayo equkethe izinzwa, isofthiwe, nobunye ubuchwepheshe obuxhuma futhi babelane ngedatha nge-inthanethi.
Ngokuka-Mirsky, i-FarmBeats isiza ukuphathwa kwedatha nokuhlaziya kusukela kubuchwepheshe bezinzwa obusetshenziswa emapulazini. Uhlelo lusebenzisa inkundla yefu ye-Microsoft Azure ukuqoqa, ukugcina, nokulungisa idatha. I-FarmBeats iphinde ithuthukise ukuxhumana okungatheni ezindaweni zasemakhaya ngokusebenzisa ubuchwepheshe be-TV white space (TVWS). I-TVWS ibhekisela kumashaneli kamabonakude we-VHF angasetshenzisiwe (imvamisa ephezulu kakhulu) kanye ne-UHF (i-ultra high frequency) futhi ingadlulisela izikhathi ezingaba yi-100 ebangeni le-Wi-Fi.
Uhlelo lusezigabeni zokuqala zokuthuthuka. Kwa-ARS, abacwaningi bayisebenzisela ukugcina izithombe “ze-phenocam” ezinemethadatha ukuqapha ingcindezi yesomiso kummbila, ubhontshisi wesoya, nokotini. I-Phenocam iyikhamera yedijithali ethwebula izithombe ezidlula isikhathi zamahlamvu ukurekhoda imiphumela yemvelo ekukhuleni kwezitshalo nempilo.
"Ikusasa lezolimo libandakanya ubuchwepheshe bokuzwela obuhlinzeka ngedatha kubalimi," kusho uMirsky. "I-FarmBeats iyinsiza eyenza lokhu."