Crop Health Management

What is Crop Health Management?

Crop health management is a smart farming IoT application that uses modern information and communication technologies, like sensors or drones, to monitor crop health and critical environmental factors. Smart agriculture applications, like crop health management, boast improved efficiency and decreased response time to potentially damaging conditions.

In the United States, 20-25 percent of all crop yields are lost due to pests, crop disease, or post-harvest losses.

Traditional crop monitoring methods rely heavily on human labor, which is both costly and prone to, well, human error. IoT crop monitoring, or crop health management solutions, requires a higher upfront cost, but is easier to scale and can provide a much more reliable long-term solution.

Crop monitoring solutions can swiftly detect changes in the environment, things like temperature, humidity, and precipitation, for example, enabling farmers to more quickly respond and save more of their harvest.

Key Benefits

• Reduce the human labor required to monitor the condition and health of crops.
• Maintain accurate records of environmental factors..
• Receive real-time alerts to pest infestations or disease.
• Decrease response time to destructive weather events such as freezes or floods.