John Deere acquires its second robotics startup: Farm equipment maker John Deere has acquired Bear Flag Robotics in a deal valued at $250 million. Bear Flag focuses on autonomous driving for farming equipment, a function that Deere has also been … [Read more...]
Private networks are coming. Businesses are not ready.
Yes, it was just two weeks ago that I wrote about factories not yet deploying 5G networks. And that's still true. But in the meantime, as companies investigate 5G, they are also assessing the validity of private networks — networks that don't share … [Read more...]
Businesses will embrace shared spectrum for factory 5G
John Deere last week shared its plans for the nearly half a million dollars' worth of public airwaves it purchased in the recent Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) auction. The agricultural giant purchased a spectrum license in five counties — … [Read more...]
Machine learning at the edge still has a ways to go
When it comes to edge computing and machine learning, there's a lot of marketing hype out there that ignores the reality of current deployments. Dan Jeavons, general manager of data science at Shell, said at a Stacey on IoT event on Thursday that … [Read more...]
What Arable learned bringing the IoT to farmers
Four years ago, I spoke with Adam Wolf, then the CEO of Arable, which was building a connected device designed to help farmers manage their irrigation and improve crop yields. Its device — the Arable Mark — was launched in 2017. It contained sensors … [Read more...]