Location
London, UK
Mission
Agri Samplers are specialists in the design and manufacture of environmental and agricultural scientific instruments.
Their instruments are used by environmental and agricultural researchers worldwide to enable a better understanding of crop diseases and airborne allergens.
The project
Agri Samplers are leading a long-running study programme part-funded by Innovate UK, and with participants from across the farming industry and academia. The goal is to reduce farm spraying by giving farmers near real-time data on crop diseases in their locality.
Pathogens are detected by advanced, robotic DNA sampling equipment that operates autonomously on farms around the country.
Walnut's role
Walnut created a data pipeline and analytics portal that receives and processes the MQTT data sent from the field. We use Amazon AWS's scalable IoT platform and serverless processing to provide near-limitless message capacity, feeding a rich website where farmers can see test results and environmental data.
This platform, branded SpraySaver, leads the field in helping farmers make timely spraying decisions.
