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#News(AgriTech) [ via IoTForIndiaGroup ]
American technology company Cisco program ‘5G RuralFirst’ is being trialled at the government-funded Agricultural Engineering Precision Innovation Centre, or Agri-EPI Centre.
The Somerset trial is one of three 5G test beds that are focussed on the potential for 5G technology in rural communities, with another testing driverless farm vehicles in Shropshire and a third in the Orkney Islands. Funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the project has just received funding for a further six months trial. Smallholder: The South West Dairy Development Centre at Shepton Mallet in Somerset 5G promises internet speeds between 50 to 100 times faster than current 4G systems, that can handle much more multiple usage without slowing technologies down. The centre’s brand new green field Dairy unit sports 180 dairy cows in a highly automated state of the art housing that combines with precision grazing. The use of the technology is allowing the unit to allocate grazing as accurately as they would allocate feed. The collars sported by the cows facilitate self milking and their health-monitoring ear tags can transmit biometric data and help workers monitor the herd from afar.
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