What challenges did Ibercaja face before AI implementation?

Farmers needed better data to make crop decisions Farm operations needed more efficient water and electricity use The project aimed to improve yields and profitability

What was the impact of the AI solution?

The project aims to help farmers make more informed decisions Microsoft says the project will see farmers saving money on water and electricity Microsoft says the project will generate better crop yields and increase profits

Source

MicrosoftEvidence: Low40/100

Ibercaja Brings Microsoft Azure AI to Spanish Agriculture

Use case typeAgronomic advisoryUpdated Jan 7, 2021

Ibercaja is bringing Microsoft Azure and artificial intelligence to Spanish agriculture to help farmers make more informed decisions about their crops, increase yields, and save water. The project uses an IoT and AI solution on Azure that collects sensor data from farms, analyzes it in the cloud, and presents real-time insights on a website for farmers to decide optimal task timing.

Organization: Ibercaja
Industry: Agriculture
Location: Spain
Published: January 2021

Reported outcomes

Strategic outcomes

Better decisions & insightImproved farmer decision-making with real-time field dataOther strategic outcomeAimed to save water and electricitySustainability & ESGSupports more efficient water use in agriculture

Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks

Customer: Ibercaja
Provider: Microsoft
Maturity: Unknown
Linked source: Technology Record

No explicit deployment-stage evidence found.

Customer identity supportedSource describes one deploymentMaturity evidence evaluated

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Use case focus

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Farmers needed better data to make crop decisions
Farm operations needed more efficient water and electricity use
The project aimed to improve yields and profitability

Ibercaja worked with Microsoft partner EFOR Internet y Tecnología and other Spanish ISVs to develop an IoT and AI solution on Azure
Farmers installed sensor boxes measuring temperature, light, moisture, wind, and humidity
Data was uploaded to the cloud every 15 minutes for real-time analysis
The solution presented data on a website and provided benchmarks from other farms and previous years

Technologies

Microsoft Azure Azure IoT

The project aims to help farmers make more informed decisions
Microsoft says the project will see farmers saving money on water and electricity
Microsoft says the project will generate better crop yields and increase profits

Implementation partners1

EFOR Internet y Tecnología

Sources & evidence1

Evidence: Low40/100Evidence strength