With an investment of less than 30€ annually
per animal, ranchers have experienced return on investment in less
than a year
Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading
supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors
and advanced algorithms, announced that itk, a leading
French supplier of Internet of Things (IoT)-based smart agriculture
applications, has developed a new cattle health monitoring solution
based on Semtech’s LoRa® devices. The FarmLife® smart agriculture
service and its LoRa-enabled sensors detect cattle estrus, drive
improved nutrition and predict the onset of disease to help
ranchers better monitor their herd.
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“Semtech’s LoRa devices provided the ideal platform on which to
develop our cattle monitoring solutions,” said Eric Jallas, CEO at
itk. “The IoT technology’s proven advantages for smart agriculture,
including long range communication and ultra-low power consumption,
were key characteristics for itk to develop its cattle monitoring
sensors. LoRa devices’ flexibility in deployment makes a key
difference for connecting animals and offers the potential for a
significant return on investment (ROI). Our unique solution
provides ranchers with tangible, actionable data on the health of
their herd to remove variables from ranching and create productive,
efficient and profitable ranches.”
Offering a flexible solution for the smart agriculture vertical,
Semtech’s LoRa devices create applications that help minimize
waste, maximize yield, reduce expenses, and offer farms and ranches
an opportunity to operate as efficiently as possible. itk’s
LoRa-based sensors deploy simply through a collar equipped to each
animal. The collar is non-invasive and immediately begins reporting
data on the cow’s health upon deployment. Ranchers monitor their
herd from this unique LoRa-based device, which provides the
benefits of four value added services: Heat’Live® for heat
detection, Feed’Live® for nutrition optimization, Time’Live® for
animal welfare, and Vel’Live® for calving detection. These services
are available through itk’s FarmLife Cloud platform. In total,
deploying itk’s solution costs less than 30€ per animal
annually.
In addition to the 300,000 cows already monitored in Europe,
approximately 20 ranches have deployed itk’s FarmLife platform in
North America, connecting cows to the Cloud through network
connectivity from X-TELIA, a leading Canadian network provider.
Following this initial deployment, farmers claimed they received an
ROI in less than a year through an increase in ranch productivity
and efficiency. X-TELIA and itk plan to continue the rollout of
this smart agriculture solution in the Canadian market, adding
itk’s San’Phone® cattle health monitoring service and its
Thermo-bolus sensor to connect up to 2.4 million cows in the coming
months.
“From measuring environmental conditions that influence crop
production to tracking livestock health indicators, LoRa devices
for smart agriculture enable efficiencies that reduce environmental
impact, maximize yield and minimize expenses,” said Marc Pegulu,
Vice President of IoT for Semtech’s Wireless and Sensing Products
Group. “With LoRa, ranchers are empowered knowing that their
animals are being monitored more accurately and efficiently than
before. itk’s LoRa-based cattle sensor and the Thermo-bolus provide
real-time data to enable ranches to operate as healthily and
productively as possible.”
Visit the smart agriculture applications page to learn more
about LoRa.
About Semtech’s LoRa® Devices
Semtech’s LoRa devices is a widely adopted long-range, low-power
solution for IoT that gives telecom companies, IoT application
makers and system integrators the feature set necessary to deploy
low-cost, interoperable IoT networks, gateways, sensors, module
products, and IoT services worldwide. IoT networks based on the
LoRaWAN® specification have been deployed in 100 countries and
Semtech is a founding member of the LoRa Alliance®, the fastest
growing IoT Alliance for Low Power Wide Area Network applications.
To learn more about how LoRa enables IoT, visit Semtech’s LoRa
site.
About itk
itk, Intelligence Technology Knowledge, was created in 2003 in
Montpellier, France, to develop Decision Support Tools (DST) for
agriculture. The company aims to help farmers optimize the yield
and quality of their crops and reduce risks on their farms while
protecting the environment through better management of inputs
(irrigation, fertilizers, and plant protection products). itk has
always had a strong focus on research. In 2016, itk acquired Medria
and expanded its methodology and expertise to the animal husbandry
industry. For more information, visit https://www.itk.fr/en/.
About Semtech
Semtech Corporation is a leading supplier of high-performance
analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms for
high-end consumer, enterprise computing, communications, and
industrial equipment. Products are designed to benefit the
engineering community as well as the global community. The Company
is dedicated to reducing the impact it, and its products, have on
the environment. Internal green programs seek to reduce waste
through material and manufacturing control, use of green technology
and designing for resource reduction. Publicly traded since 1967,
Semtech is listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the
symbol SMTC. For more information, visit www.semtech.com.
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