Hardware agnostic IoT solution takes customization to the next level

Jamie Leland, Content Assistant, Jan. 16, 2017 – Last year, n.io, an Internet of Things (IoT) software platform company, put forth a universal interoperability and artificial intelligence platform for an agriculture solution, n.io Ag, and was awarded Gold in the Dell Connect What Matters competition, which challenged participants to come up with an IoT solution with real business value using a Dell Edge Gateway for IoT.

In their pilot agriculture solution, they outfitted a vineyard with sensors to monitor plants, field conditions, irrigation systems, and mechanical devices and connected them to a central platform. There, the farmer can apply logic for intelligent control, which could be turning off and on pumps, opening valves, turning on a frost fan, etc., from a mobile dashboard. The system can also be fully automated, so no user input is necessarily required.

"It's a platform for facilitating the connection of any input - that can be sensors or a soft feed (like Twitter, Facebook, or even a text message) - and then using those inputs or that context to apply logic for intelligent control and automation," explained Blake Duhame, Program Director at n.io. "n.io can be fully autonomous and literally sense what is happening at the plant level and then apply the optimal amount of resources based on what it senses without any human involvement."

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