The full MVNO ability of Soracom helps with the support of AG Tech company AI processing of IoT sensor data.
Soracom, Inc. today announced that Bindry, an agricultural technology company, use the IoT modules and the connectivity of Soracom to support its mechanical, learning sensors in the support of intelligent, automated feed management solutions for feeding for feeding and livestock farms.
Accurate inventory management and supply chain efficiency were traditional for suppliers, sellers and buyers of cattle feed, since monitoring the amount of feed in a container or a silo often requires time-consuming and potentially insecure manual checks. Often workers climb in feed mills, vertical processing systems or cattle barns several times a day and bend over the side of a silo to look deep into them to judge the amount of feed that remains inside.
“We have up to 76,000 points that we measure in a silo, and about 9,600 in a feed container, and we measure each one of them about 50 times every five seconds.” said Nathan Hoel, co -founder and CTO of Binsentry.
“We are now monitoring 40,000 devices and sending as many raw data to the cloud as possible to apply AI to these raw data – over half a million total measurements – in order to obtain a precise evaluation of the volume within a single container.”
These requirements led the Bindry to Soracom and the company’s complete package with reliable mobile radio -Iot connectivity, flexible SIM use and billing as well as MVNO agreements that cover more than 180 countries and territories in more than 360 airlines.
In order to get everything up and running, Bindry required reliable IoT connectivity to its local sensors, which is widespread in North American markets in most rural areas. The company experimented with a number of connectivity technologies, including Lorawan and NB-IoT, before selecting LTE CAT-M1 because it gave the same widespread, existing network as LTE telephones.
Bindry offers flight time sensors that can be placed in large feed containers and use the infrared light pulses to measure the feed level. The collected image and distant data are transferred back to the cloud to enable the creation of 3D images of feed stocks. It is an intelligent, automated remote monitoring solution that offers feed and others with extremely precise inventory data.
“We found that access to the most different providers in rural areas was extremely important, and so we needed an MVNO with as many carrier agreements as possible that would allow us to switch Sims from one carrier to another if we need it if we need it.” Said Hoel.
“The experience of Bindry is proof of how reliable mobile phone -Iot connectivity can participate in new business models in the agricultural industry and other industries” said Kenta Yasukawa, Ph.D., CTO and co -founder of Soracom, Inc. “With our companion, Cloud and Hardware-Nagnostic, we can work with our customers directly to provide the right building blocks to activate and scale your IoT deployments.”