Smart agriculture operations are benefitting significantly from the availability of satellite communications to underpin everything from crop monitoring to remote asset tracking and even automation of machines. Farms, by their nature, cover large areas and are often far from population centres. Therefore, cellular coverage can be patchy and fixed fibre infrastructure non-existent.
Satellite increasingly provides a viable alternative bringing high capacity, low latency networks to the industry, enabling a greater number of use cases than ever before. Traditionally, satellite communications may have been perceived to be too costly for all but the highest value farming applications but innovations in satellite technology have rapidly democratised access to satellite. Satellite specialists have reduced the costs of their services by optimising satellite design, launch and operation and enhanced their coverage by adding new constellations.
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