Intel tunes its IoT solutions with the help of blueberry farmers

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Optimizing IoT for blueberry farms: A learning experience for Intel ZDNet‘s Stephanie Condon tells Karen Roby how Intel improved its Connected Logistics Platform after conducting a pilot project with blueberry farmers.
“It’s easy for people to think of a produce truck as not really high value, but the value of a blueberry truck could be over $100,000,” Aaron Ensign, president of fruit distributor Curry & Co., said to ZDNet.
Maintaining a temperature-controlled supply chain is a vital part of business for produce, as well as other fresh foods and other products like pharmaceuticals.
It’s why tech businesses like Intel have been investing in the Internet of Things — sensors that can be deployed as far afield as a blueberry patch in Brooks, or a shipping vessel on its way from Oregon to Indonesia — as well as blockchain platforms for building distributed ledger networks.
“The data that we start collecting can be so useful at the edge for making decisions in real time,” Ninette Vaz, Intel’s Global Supply Chain IoT Senior Manager, told ZDNet.
In July 2018, Intel teamed up with Curry & Co. for a pilot project to refine its supply chain solutions.
Specifically, they deployed the Intel Connected Logistics Platform (ICLP), Intel’s Hyperledger Sawtooth Blockchain and Microsoft Azure to track a truck of blueberries.
Using APIs, customers can use the ICLP to track other pieces of data collected by separate sensors.
For the purposes of the Curry & Co. pilot project, Intel tracked the temperature, humidity and location of the berries.
The pilot project helped Intel gain insight into those challenges, particularly those related to tracking a climate-controlled supply chain.
When the pilot started, the Intel team thought its sensors were optimized, said Laura Rumbel, a consumer experience enabling director at Intel.
For example, “our assumption was when you put a sensor on a flat of blueberries, as the temperature came down, the humidity would come down,” Rumbel said

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