The document discusses the impact of Internet of Things (IoT) technology on optimizing water usage in agriculture, highlighting various benefits such as increased crop yields and reduced water consumption. It emphasizes the importance of real-time data processing and the development of affordable, energy-efficient IoT devices for agricultural applications. The author shares insights from research on different crops, demonstrating significant improvements in yield and water savings through smart monitoring solutions.

1. Optimizing water usage in agriculture
with Internet of Things
Hector Dominguez, PhD
SmartVineyards
October 27th
, 2015

2. What is all the buzz around
Internet of things?
● IoT is a technology that enables devices to
interact to the web
● IoT assumes “Smartness”
● IoT is expected to bring 50 Billion devices by
2025 (IHS 2013: Internet Connected Devices)
● IoT promises data from sensor to cloud and
your desktop or smartphone

3. What technology is behind IoT?
● Distributed specific-use affordable plug&play
devices
● Flexible and resilient communication Systems
● Open Architecture
● New generation of databases
● Microservices and API management
● Lambda functions
● Machine Learning and Data Science

4. Data Flow
● Acquisition
● Cleaning and massaging
● Processing
● Aggregation
● Visualization
● Storage

5. Privacy
● Big concern on IoT deployments
● Encryption
● Access authentication
● Data access through digital keys and secure
connections
● Traceable events
● Safe data repositories + Redundacy

6. Data science innovation
● Data analysis come in two stages: real time and
off-line processing
● Cloud-based application
● Scalable and adaptable solutions
● Sensor networks produce real time data
● Model based irrigation, disease prevention and
weather forecast aggregation
● Scientific libraries applied through the data
pipeline

7. Benefits of using IoT
Strawberry Research
● 17% yield increase
● 35% less water consumption
● Near-zero fertilizer leaching
Almond Research
● 16% yield increase
● 24% water savings
Cranberry Research
● 25-50% yield increase
● 3-6 times less water
consumption
● Increased profitability ($3,500
per acre)
Lettuce Research
● 18% yield increase
● 10-20% less tip burn
● Increased profitability ($500-
$4,000 per acre)

8. Our experience
● Off-the-grid affordable devices are hard to
develop
● Evolving product:
– First iteration: expensive and costly maintenance
– Second iteration, first production trial: Fail!
– Third iteration, current: It works, cost effective and
efficient in the field.
● Key aspects of IoT devices in agriculture:
Energy efficient, Reliable communications,
Security.

9. SmartVineyards
● Real-time soil tension
monitoring system
● Solar Powered
● Mesh network
● Automatic setup
● Easy to install
● Web-based
dashboard

10. SmartVineyards

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