Vodafone Expands into the Agronomic Sector

Vodafone Romania is expanding its portfolio of digitalization solutions for businesses with a suite of solutions dedicated to farmers. These integrate Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and are based on sensors that enable the collection and management of essential crop data, automation of operations, monitoring of various parameters, and the generation of analyses and predictions that help increase efficiency and productivity in agriculture.

“Agriculture is one of the sectors that can benefit enormously from the adoption of digital technologies and solutions. Romania is still at the beginning in this regard, but we are seeing growing openness and interest among farmers, who have understood that precision agriculture, based on IoT technologies and data analysis, represents the agriculture of the future,” says Mihnea Rădulescu, Director of the Enterprise Business Unit, Vodafone Romania.

Vodafone’s portfolio of solutions is designed for farmers with different types of crops — large-scale crops (grains, oilseeds), vegetable crops, or orchards — cultivated both in open fields and in greenhouses. The solutions are scalable and configurable, tailored to the needs of each farmer, regardless of the size of the cultivated land or the type of crop.

Furthermore, by connecting to Vodafone’s nationwide NarrowBand–IoT (NB-IoT) network, Vodafone’s agricultural solutions enable communication between devices and sensors anywhere in the country, thus meeting the needs of farmers who have crops even in remote areas without access to electricity.