{"id":882402,"date":"2022-10-06T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-blog-post&#038;p=882402"},"modified":"2022-10-06T08:11:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T15:11:23","slug":"farmvibes-edge","status":"publish","type":"msr-blog-post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/articles\/farmvibes-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"FarmVibes.Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 id=\"processing-farm-data-captured-by-drones-or-other-farm-sources\">Processing farm data captured by drones or other farm sources<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/FarmVibes_Nelson-drone-08_1400x788-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Nelson launches a drone from the back of a pickup truck\" class=\"wp-image-883257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/FarmVibes_Nelson-drone-08_1400x788-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/FarmVibes_Nelson-drone-08_1400x788-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/FarmVibes_Nelson-drone-08_1400x788-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/FarmVibes_Nelson-drone-08_1400x788-1066x600.jpg 1066w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/FarmVibes_Nelson-drone-08_1400x788-655x368.jpg 655w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/FarmVibes_Nelson-drone-08_1400x788-343x193.jpg 343w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/FarmVibes_Nelson-drone-08_1400x788-240x135.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/FarmVibes_Nelson-drone-08_1400x788-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/FarmVibes_Nelson-drone-08_1400x788-960x540.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/FarmVibes_Nelson-drone-08_1400x788-1280x720.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/FarmVibes_Nelson-drone-08_1400x788.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Since connectivity from farm to the cloud is limited, it is difficult to send large amounts of data from the farm to the cloud. A single 15-minute drone flight can generate GBs of data, which are difficult to send to the cloud from the middle of a farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our key insight is that most farmers have a PC. If they don\u2019t, we have a PC form factor device that is loaded with a lot of software that does AI, Computer Vision, and processing on an Edge device in the farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/farmvibes-edge_1400x788-1024x576.png\" alt=\"FarmVibes - diagram showing edge device data\" class=\"wp-image-882060\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/farmvibes-edge_1400x788-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/farmvibes-edge_1400x788-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/farmvibes-edge_1400x788-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/farmvibes-edge_1400x788-1066x600.png 1066w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/farmvibes-edge_1400x788-655x368.png 655w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/farmvibes-edge_1400x788-343x193.png 343w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/farmvibes-edge_1400x788-240x135.png 240w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/farmvibes-edge_1400x788-640x360.png 640w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/farmvibes-edge_1400x788-960x540.png 960w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/farmvibes-edge_1400x788-1280x720.png 1280w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/farmvibes-edge_1400x788.png 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We have been developing technologies to process large amounts of data in the farm itself \u2013 either in the farmer\u2019s house or office, or next to the base stations. The Edge device gets data from sensors, from drones, performs computer vision techniques to stitch drone imagery, and can also run AI at the Edge. We have also developed techniques to intelligently send large amounts of data from the Edge to the Cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/visage-enabling-timely-analytics-for-drone-imagery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the paper presented at MobiCom 2021 ><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/farmbeats-iot-platform-data-driven-agriculture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the paper presented at NSDI 2017 ><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Note: <strong>FarmVibes.Edge<\/strong> will be released to GitHub soon.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FarmVibes.Edge involves developing technologies to process large amounts of data in the farm itself \u2013 either in the farmer\u2019s house or office, or next to the base stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40306,"featured_media":883257,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","msr-content-parent":881235,"msr_hide_image_in_river":0,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-post-option":[],"class_list":["post-882402","msr-blog-post","type-msr-blog-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_assoc_parent":{"id":881235,"type":"project"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-blog-post\/882402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-blog-post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/msr-blog-post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40306"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-blog-post\/882402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883581,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-blog-post\/882402\/revisions\/883581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=882402"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=882402"},{"taxonomy":"msr-post-option","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-post-option?post=882402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}