In the news | NewsNation
Farmers are harvesting data to increase yields
Andrew Nelson’s family has farmed in the rolling hills of eastern Washington state for five generations. Rows of wheat, peas, lentils and barley stretch across their 7,500-acre farm. Yet each spring, those hills provided constant stress when trying to predict…
In the news | Microsoft Stories
Tech workers turn their skills toward helping the world — one disaster at a time
Her children had grown up under frequent bombing in eastern Ukraine for the past eight years and would automatically — and calmly — run to an inner corridor for shelter whenever they heard the telltale whoosh. So when even they started…
In the news | TechTalkThai
Microsoft opens open source AI algorithms to help manage farms
Microsoft has announced the launch of the FarmVibes project and released open source, FarmVibes.AI ai algorithms used in this project, a project that uses AI to manage farms, helping to make farming more efficient. Within the system, several types of…
FarmVibes.Edge
FarmVibes.Edge involves developing technologies to process large amounts of data in the farm itself – either in the farmer’s house or office, or next to the base stations.
FarmVibes.Connect
FarmVibes.Connect involves inventing new ways to bring Internet to the middle of a farm, such as leveraging unused TV channels, Narrowband IoT, and space communications.
FarmVibes.Bot
The FarmVibes.Bot platform allows organizations to communicate simply and effectively with any user who has a feature phone (by USSD or SMS) or any user who has a smart phone (WhatsApp, Facebook, Telegram, etc.).
FarmVibes.AI
FarmVibes.AI merges data sources, like heat maps, super-res satellite imagery, and other technologies to create a big picture view about a farm.
In the news | Popular Science
Microsoft is hoping its algorithms can help farmers—and the planet
Can the people of the world be fed without ruining the planet in the process? Among the many scientists, organizations, companies, and farmers working on this problem is Microsoft. Yesterday, the tech giant open-sourced what they call the toolkit for…
In the news | Geekwire
Microsoft open-sources farm technologies, planting seeds for data-driven sustainable agriculture
Microsoft Research is releasing the underlying code for a series of agricultural technologies under open-source licenses, encouraging soil specialists, plant scientists and other experts to build tech solutions for sustainable farms. The move comes as U.S. farmers grapple with low…