Land & Agricultural Research

A project was launched using drones flying over large plantations to transmit real-time data to a central system on the health and lifespan of forest trees, plantations, and crops, as well as geo-terrain information. A Global IT Technologies team member was once again engaged to develop the drone hardware needed to apply edge computing technologies to this project.

We supplied the drone with fast x86 processing hardware acting as its central nervous system, using an encrypted communication protocol to transmit data to the central system that integrated our solution. The project successfully passed the prototyping and proof-of-concept (PoC) stages. Since then, additional sets of drones and central systems have been developed and deployed.