OnFarm

OnFarm | November 05, 2014

California-based OnFarm used ThingWorx's cloud-based Internet of Things platform to develop its Web-based farm information application. This collects data from a variety of connected things, such as soil moisture sensors, and integrates it with data from other sources, such as weather information providers. It then presents the information on a customizable dashboard to its farmer customers. OnFarm CEO Lance Donny briefly considered hiring developers to build an Internet of Things platform f...

OnFarm | June 02, 2014

Welcome to the new era of farming, where advancements in the Internet of Things, Big Data, and the biotech industry intersect. Things have been trending this way for some time, but now that the so-called agtech (agriculture + technology) market has matured, investor interest is heating up and big agricultural companies like DuPont, Monsanto, and John Deere are gleefully acquiring smaller startups....

Channellife | January 14, 2020

Avnet is launching a new IoT-specific partner programme designed to provide developers with a place to build complete IoT solutions. Using Avnet's IoTConnect platform, powered by Microsoft's Azure IoT Suite, developers can connect devices that address both the software and hardware needs of IoT solutions. Avnet will be adding a comprehensive marketplace in the coming months, which will allow a developer to write IoT applications to its platform and offer the...

Tech Radar | January 13, 2020

The risks of cybersecurity are more complex than ever. Due to the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), by 2020 every person will generate 1.7 megabytes of information per second. As new technologies evolve, cyber criminals adapt and discover new hacking methods to apprehend sensitive data. AI and IoT have the potential to revolutionise society, but what happens when these new technologies are weaponized by cyber criminals? Unless hardware-based endpoint security...