Students hack to solve big challenges in food production at the Cornell DigitalAg hackathon 2021
This year 175 students from all around the world got together to try to solve some of the greatest challenges facing farmers trying to feed a fast-growing global population, as part of the Cornell Digital AG hackathon 2021.Using the FarmBeats Student Kit to learn more about IoT, Digital Agriculture and Precision Farming
FarmBeats is a venture of Microsoft Research that was launched in 2015 as a prototype for an Internet of Things (IoT) platform for agriculture. Stemming from the concept of Digital Agriculture, it uses technologies such as low-cost sensors, drones, vision, white space, cloud computing and Machine Learning algorithms to combat very little or no-power in farms. Consequently, the FarmBeats platform has not only allowed for real-time seamless data collection from sensors, cameras and drones but also for storage and complex processing within Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, known as Microsoft Azure.Digital AG Hackathon at Cornell
Last weekend Cornell University hosted a Microsoft sponsored digital agriculture hackathon in collaboration with 3 other top agricultural universities from around the world. Students across a wide range of disciplines covering tech to plant science got together to solve some of the pressing problems in the agriculture space using technology.
