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uk
 Precision Agriculture

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Precision Farming Statistics

Current UK adoption of Precision Technologies

Defra, 2013, Farm Practices Survey Autumn 2012 – England

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 Rising Sun Farm

1.17Km 1.92Km

0.92Km

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 Connectivity options

1. SATELLITE BROADBAND - COMS ON THE MOVE

(COTM)
Challenging due to small antenna size / low gain & pointing accuracy
Especially challenging due to bumpy ground & engine vibration

2. WI-FI
Fields are up to 2Km away & 700m wide so this is VERY challenging!
There are 30m tall trees, 3m ditches and we lose line of sight!

3. WHITE SPACE
800MHz could be a solution for distance & foliage
Can you get reasonable broadband capacity?

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 COTM ANTENNA

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 SECTOR ANTENNAS ON GRAIN SILO

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 TRACTOR WITH WI-FI ANTENNAS

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 WI-FI SIGNAL STRENGTH RESULTS

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 WHITE SPACE TRIAL CONFIGURATION
Omni antenna
(1/2 wavelength monopole)
on soil sampling buggy roof Whitespace
Radio on buggy roof

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 Conclusions
Exciting opportunities to break down barricaders to rural
connectivity

Sat Cotm WIFI TVWS

5Mbs Upload 2km Range Initial tests 95%
download achieved coverage
600 Ms Delay 12mb/s 2-15mb/s
Cost of antenna Foliage big issue Bugs in software
Line of sight to Point to point Nominet license
equator possible issues
Yard Instillations Real time options
possible
Option to replace
fixed rtk radios
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 Precision Decisions – Smart Connected data solutions

Sensor
Systems

Weather
Data
Tracker

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 Contact

Clive Blacker
Old Station Works
Shipton by Beningbrough
York
YO30 1BS

07808 367456

clive@precisiondecisions.co.uk
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