[spydum]

Cool to see tech creeping its way into agriculture.

My in-laws run a vineyard & winery. For many years, I was convinced I would build a sensor-net and on-premises app with some automation capability (toggling servos for irrigation, "fertigation" type system, tanks, timers, etc). Never really made it out of idea stage as my priorities took a different turn, but glad to see some other folks tackling the problems.

Seems like the super low cost of sensors now makes this really attractive (heck, a small farm of couple acres could be wired up to a handful of strategically placed rasberyPi's in a weatherproof case).

[windowsworkstoo]

This is already reality for decent sized ag setups - measuring things like soil moisture, pH levels etc and reporting back.