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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2018. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Ranveer ↗
In their words
the goal of the farm beats project is to bring down the cost of these data driven agriculture solutions by two orders of magnitude. We want to bring it down from eight thousand to 80.
in the context of agriculture the key insight was that TV towers are where people are... the farms are away from the cities, there are fewer people, you have fewer TV channels. That's not that great news for farmers; for us, for connectivity, that's great news.
Quick answers
What is FarmBeats?
A Microsoft system that combines sensors, drones, cloud and edge computing to give farms data-driven decisions. Chandra invented it; the work led to Azure Data Manager for Agriculture, adopted by companies including Bayer and Land O'Lakes.
What is Ranveer Chandra's role at Microsoft?
CTO of Agri-Food, managing director of research for industry, and head of networking research at Microsoft Research in Redmond. He was previously chief scientist of Microsoft Azure Global.
What did he speak about at TechTO?
Innovations in agriculture — data-driven farming — at the June 2018 Microsoft AI special edition of TechTO.