FarmBeats: AI, Edge & IoT for Agriculture
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Awards | The Top Innovators
The Top Innovators in Agriculture 2021
Ranveer Chandra, Microsoft Azure, earns a “Highly Commended” rating on the Top Innovators in Agriculture list 2021 for Microsoft FarmBeats.
Micro-climate predictions: Enabling hyper-local decisions for agriculture and renewables
| Peeyush Kumar and Ranveer Chandra
It is springtime in Eastern Washington, USA, and the temperature is slightly above freezing. A farmer is preparing to fertilize his fields of wheat and lentils as winter runoff and frost are nearly finished. The plants are susceptible to fertilizer…
In the news | TechRepublic
Microsoft’s Azure IoT platform helps make farming greener as well as smarter
Precision agriculture brings sensors, AI, and farming together to deliver better crops with lower environmental impact. Now it’s also helping to track carbon.
In the news | The Denver Channel
How technology is reshaping the way we farm
The oldest industry in the world is merging with the modern world as technology is helping farmers and making farms more sustainable. Farming has always been a part of Ranveer Chandra’s life. When he was a kid, memories were made…
In the news | Microsoft News Center
Land O’Lakes and Microsoft form strategic alliance to pioneer new innovations in agriculture and support rural communities
ARDEN HILLS, Minn., and REDMOND, Wash. — July 15, 2020 — Land O’Lakes Inc. and Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced a multiyear strategic alliance to pioneer new innovations in agriculture and enhance the supply chain, expand sustainability practices for farmers…
In the news | Microsoft News Center India
How Microsoft is building new tech to bring precision agriculture to the world’s poorest farmers
Be it a farmer from the Great Plains region in the United States or Punjab in India, many of the farming decisions are taken by guesswork. From the amount of fertilizer to be used to when one should sow, water,…
AI for Earth with Dr. Lucas Joppa
Episode 72, April 17, 2019 – We hear a lot these days about “AI for good” and the efforts of many companies to harness the power of artificial intelligence to solve some of our biggest environmental challenges. It’s rare, however,…
Faculty Summit 2018 – Advancing the future shape of systems toward a global AI supercomputer
The 19th Microsoft Research Faculty Summit yet again demonstrated its unique place in the world of computer science in gathering thought leaders, state-of-the-art ideas, new products and a sense of the possible under one roof as industry and leading academic…
In the news | InfoWorld
Data-driven agriculture: How IoT could change farming
Azure IoT Edge is powering Microsoft Research’s agricultural monitoring and machine learning platform, called FarmBeats.