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Precision Agriculture is evolving. It’s time to embrace innovative solutions and modern technologies.
Modern agricultural machinery contains hundreds of sensors. They collect detailed information about the machine itself, the operating environment (air and soil), as well as plant growth and development. Injecting such information into decision support systems helps improve machine accuracy, increase harvest quality and quantity, and reduce fertiliser use. Thus, precision agriculture brings plenty of net positive opportunities.
However, accessing this valuable and sensitive proprietary information is cumbersome for several reasons. One of them is vendor lock-in, where proprietary interfaces do not offer support for data export. However, the Data Act adopted in the EU takes care of this concern: it obliges vendors to open up access to data that their equipment collects. Another critical concern preventing data sharing is about losing control of valuable business assets: control over data. As a result, decision support systems are not used to their full potential the agricultural domain. Today, even the data that is actually gathered and available remains mostly dormant.
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Agricultural machinery sensitive data can be processed in a fully encrypted environment.
Giving up privacy for the benefits of precision farming?
Sharing data always carries the risk of losing privacy, unless it is done in a safe environment. This applies to precision farming as well. The solution lies in scope-limited data collaboration where secrecy is protected, like the Confidential Cloud platform by Canary Bit.