Prestigious annual IoT Breakthrough Awards program honors standout IoT companies and products

SHANGHAI – 12 January, 2023 – Quectel Wireless Solutions, a global IoT solutions provider, today announced that FarmGO, utilizing Quectel antennas, GNSS and cellular modules, has been selected as winner of the “Smart Agriculture Solution of the Year” award in the 7^th annual IoT Breakthrough Awards program conducted by IoT Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global internet of things (IoT) market today.

FarmGO is a smart agriculture platform of agricultural weather stations which helps farmers in Brazil optimize their activities. Developed with agronomists, researchers and rural producers, FarmGO acts as a decision-making support tool drawing on data from monitoring a wide range of agricultural sensors and indicators.

The FarmGO solution features several Quectel solutions for implementation, including the Quectel L76-L and EC21 modules as well as the Quectel YEMN001AA antenna. With FarmGO, climate monitoring enables weather history, individualized by field, to be correlated with weather alerts and a manual rainfall recording option. The position accuracy the system delivers provides highly granular data on the most fertile areas for farmers to cultivate.

The solution brings together multiple data points to ensure optimized crop yield and it combines GPS with cellular connectivity options at low-cost – enabling large numbers of weather stations to be deployed.

FarmGO’s weather stations are intelligent, fully autonomous and designed to operate in rural areas, offering producers greater precision and efficiency for irrigation and climatic conditions on their properties. The system enables analysis of historical behavior of specific areas to be added so automatic identification of productive spots can be undertaken.

“The agriculture industry has always looked to technology to aid efficiency, improve yields and ensure it can feed the world. Crop health monitoring, pest and disease monitoring, identification of anomalies, field inspection records, importation of planting and harvesting maps and importation of soil fertility data are all data points IoT can help with,“ said James Johnson, managing director at IoT Breakthrough. “Deployments of the scale and scope of FarmGO are transforming attitudes to IoT as farmers reap the benefits in their day-to-day operations and at harvest time. FarmGO provides a clear, measurable example of how IoT has broken through into the mainstream of agribusiness and is driving positive outcomes across the industry. Congratulations to Quectel and their technology with FarmGo for being our choice for ‘Smart Agriculture Solution of the Year!’”

The mission of the IoT Breakthrough Awards program is to recognize the innovators, leaders and visionaries from around the globe in a range of IoT categories, including Industrial and Enterprise IoT, Smart City technology, Connected Home and Home Automation, Connected Car, and many more. This year’s program attracted more than 4,000 nominations from companies all over the world.

“It’s an honor to receive this award from IoT Breakthrough. Trusting future crops to technology demands that farmers have high confidence in the systems they deploy. FarmGO has worked hard to ensure its offering is resilient and reliable so users can be assured of timely, accurate insights to drive their decision making,” said Norbert Muhrer, President and CSO, Quectel Wireless Solutions. “We’re thrilled that our technology was chosen for this leading-edge solution. With more farmers deploying systems, farmers are seeing improved yields, less wastage and more efficient utilization of time and resources. That means finding more sustainable ways of feeding the world.”

The FarmGO platform currently is used to monitor two million hectares with 82,000 areas managed.

About Quectel 

Quectel’s passion for a smarter world drives us to accelerate IoT innovation. A highly customer-centric organization, we are a global IoT solutions provider backed by outstanding support and services.

Our growing global team of over 6,000 professionals sets the pace for innovation in cellular, GNSS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth modules, antennas and services.

With regional offices and support across the globe, our international leadership is devoted to advancing IoT and helping build a smarter world. 

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Phil Rawcliffe, Head of Communications
phil.rawcliffe@quectel.com  

About IoT Breakthrough

Part of the Tech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for global technology innovation and leadership, the IoT Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring excellence in Internet-of-Things technologies, services, companies and products. The IoT Breakthrough Awards program provides a forum for public recognition around the achievements of IoT companies and products in categories including Connected Home and Home Automation, Connected Car, Industrial IoT (IIoT) and Smart City, Consumer IoT and more. For more information visit IoTBreakthrough.com.