GSMA CAPACITY BUILDING

Internet of Things (IoT)

Participant : Afonso Madivadua Junior
Mozambique
Final Project: IoT for Agriculture
 GSMA Capacity Building, IoT for Agriculture
Introduction:
Farmers have been investing heavily in technology, including
data collection and analysis, as a means to increase crop
yields.
Making sure large and expensive farming vehicles, from
tractors and trucks to harvesters and combines, are in top
operating condition is critical to ensuring crops can be
planted, harvested, and delivered to market on time for the
greatest revenue opportunity.
With repairs and maintenance representing a large portion of
a vehicle’s cost, farmers who reduce those costs can
immediately improve profitability. A study of farmers in the
Midwest showed that machinery repair costs could be
reduced by 25% just by improving routine maintenance
procedures. By expanding those savings across an entire fleet
of equipment, savings canbe significant. [source: BSQUARE
The business of IoT]
Proposed Solution – Monitoring Performance of
farming vehicles
License-exempt bands
including, including the Local
industrial scientific and
medical (ISM) band or Server A SIM that can
TV-white Spaces attach in an
Mobile Network 2G/3G Cloud
Sensors Manufacter
data analyses
on LPWA/SMART SIM
vehicles
Local
data
analyses
Manufacter
Maintenance data analyses
Procedures
BSC
 General description
Iot Solution & Benefits:
The provided solution helps farmers determine
whether equipment is functioning optimally; Business model
Cost saving sharing
The Iot Solution can accurately determine the
cause of a fault;
Improve repair plans that let them know exactly
what parts and technician expertise will be
required to fix the problem.
IoT in Agriculture
( reducing maintenance costs)

Challenges
bandwidth constrained connectivity ;
Techologies
lack of coverage ;
Smart SIM (3G, 2G)
no clear legislation on how the Smart SIM works ( under
LPWA
the MVNO);
high cost on the agreements with the MNOs.
Solution

IoT • Tracking location, status and performance of Farming Vehicles ( tractors and trucks)
• Imagine the farmer has a lot of farming vehicles and is facing a lot of costs for maintenance and
one IOT company is proposing a solution which will reduce this cost and they will share the
revenue coming from the reduced costs;

Solution • The solution is called : Tracking location, status and performance of Farming Vehicles ( tractors
and trucks)

• Run more efficient operations with optimized maintenance and logistics;

• Better comply with environmental and safety regulations;

Benefits • Improve fuel efficiency through optimized routes and vehicle maintenance;
• Monitor driver performance for better safety;
• Maintain vehicle health and increase vehicle valuation through preventative maintenance;
• Reduce the maintenance costs
• Improved customer satisfaction through on-time deliveries and higher quality of service;
Technologies
Feature Requirement Comment
Network Area Local and Wide LPWA: because of the ability to
offer affordable connectivity to the
low power devices distributed over
very large geographical areas

Smart SIM: for trucks that circulate

out the farm
Spectrum Unlicensed/Shared
Battery life Long
Connectivity Cost Medium Due to the combination of SMART
SIM and LPWA
Module Cost Medium
Bandwidth Law / Medium
Technologies 2G, 3G and LPWA
Business Model
Business Models Revenue of the IoT Company Device Ownership

Cost-savings Sharing Recurring IoT company

Policy

Operational considerations Policy areas

• LPWA, enables devices to • The project needs: Clear

spread and move over large regulations on unlicensed
geographical areas. bands ( interference
• SMART SIM able to attach resolution procedures)
in any licensed mobile • Clear deals with the MNOs
operator to avoid outages, to avoid unfair competition
it can be provided by one
MVNO.
Final Notes

[source: BSQUARE The business of IoT]

THE END

FIM
OBRIGADO