
FarmBeats is an AI and IoT platform that helps solve these challenges and provides seamless data collection to enable precision agriculture techniques. FarmBeats uses ground sensors and drones to provide actional insights for farmers Moreover, it solves the challenge of enabling reliable Internet connectivity for farms by using TV White Spaces and a system design that is robust towards harsh weather and power outages. The FarmBeats system has been deployed on farms worldwide to enable solutions such as storage monitoring and precision sensor maps of crop fields. We have demonstrated that with FarmBeats data-driven techniques can be enabled, such as precision spraying, resulting in reduced spraying of chemicals by 90% and providing cost savings of 15% for particular farming scenarios. [an error occurred while processing this directive] Zerina Kapetanovic is PhD Candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Washington. She works in the Sensor Systems lab, advised by Professor Joshua Smith. He research is focused on developing low-power sensing and wireless communication techniques to enable and deploy new applications in wide range of fields, such as agriculture. She recently received the Microsoft Research Dissertation grant for her proposal titled, "Low-power Communication for Environmental Sensing Systems". [an error occurred while processing this directive] Personal home page [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive]