What are the different connectivity options?

There is a multitude of connectivity solutions available. Not all connectivity is the same. Some connectivity solutions weren't designed for smart farming applications and have limited use cases. Other connectivity solutions are specifically designed to enable digital agriculture and allow the connection and integration of all AgriTech systems across the farm.   

Connectivity across the whole farm fence-to-fence allows growers to adopt digital agriculture and a range of technologies, AgriTech devices, robotics, and automation. Appropriate connectivity solutions for farms should allow basic connectivity functions to occur, such as voice and mobile data use. Critically, it should also have effective, ubiquitous coverage over the whole farm, have the capacity and capability to support data-intensive farming activities, be reliable, have a secure network, be cost-effective overall, and be future-proofed.   

What is the result of having a network solution that ticks all those boxes? It enables connectivity for data-intensive robotics, automation, AI, machine learning, smart-farming, remote collaboration, and more intensive precision farming functions. This connectivity ultimately helps farmers and growers to increase on-farm efficiencies, improve profits and reduce losses, and increase production sustainably now and into the future.  

For a more detailed comparison of the different connectivity options, please read our article here.