Prestigious annual IoT Breakthrough Awards program  honors standout IoT companies and products

SHANGHAI – 12 January, 2023 –  Quectel  Wireless Solutions, a global IoT solutions provider, today  announced that FarmGO, utilizing Quectel antennas,  GNSS  and cellular  modules, has been selected as winner of the “Smart Agriculture Solution of  the Year” award in the 7^th annual IoT Breakthrough  Awards program conducted by IoT  Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that  recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global  internet of things (IoT) market today.

FarmGO is a smart  agriculture platform of agricultural weather stations which helps  farmers in Brazil optimize their activities. Developed with agronomists,  researchers and rural producers, FarmGO acts as a decision-making support  tool drawing on data from monitoring a wide range of agricultural sensors and  indicators.

The FarmGO solution features several Quectel solutions for  implementation, including the Quectel L76-L  and EC21  modules as well as the Quectel YEMN001AA antenna. With FarmGO, climate  monitoring enables weather history, individualized by field, to be correlated  with weather alerts and a manual rainfall recording option. The position  accuracy the system delivers provides highly granular data on the most  fertile areas for farmers to cultivate.

The solution brings together multiple  data points to ensure optimized crop yield and it combines GPS with cellular  connectivity options at low-cost – enabling large numbers of weather stations  to be deployed.

FarmGO’s weather stations are intelligent, fully autonomous  and designed to operate in rural areas, offering producers greater precision  and efficiency for irrigation and climatic conditions on their properties.  The system enables analysis of historical behavior of specific areas to be  added so automatic identification of productive spots can be  undertaken.

“The agriculture industry has always looked to technology to  aid efficiency, improve yields and ensure it can feed the world. Crop health  monitoring, pest and disease monitoring, identification of anomalies, field  inspection records, importation of planting and harvesting maps and  importation of soil fertility data are all data points IoT can help with,“  said James Johnson, managing director at IoT Breakthrough. “Deployments of  the scale and scope of FarmGO are transforming attitudes to IoT as farmers  reap the benefits in their day-to-day operations and at harvest time. FarmGO  provides a clear, measurable example of how IoT has broken through into the  mainstream of agribusiness and is driving positive outcomes across the  industry. Congratulations to Quectel and their technology with FarmGo for  being our choice for ‘Smart Agriculture Solution of the  Year!’”

The mission of the IoT Breakthrough Awards program is to  recognize the innovators, leaders and visionaries from around the globe in a  range of IoT categories, including Industrial and Enterprise IoT, Smart City  technology, Connected Home and Home Automation, Connected Car, and many more.  This year’s program attracted more than 4,000 nominations from companies all  over the world.

“It’s an honor to receive this award from IoT Breakthrough.  Trusting future crops to technology demands that farmers have high confidence  in the systems they deploy. FarmGO has worked hard to ensure its offering is  resilient and reliable so users can be assured of timely, accurate insights  to drive their decision making,” said Norbert Muhrer, President and CSO,  Quectel Wireless Solutions. “We’re thrilled that our technology was chosen  for this leading-edge solution. With more farmers deploying systems, farmers  are seeing improved yields, less wastage and more efficient utilization of time  and resources. That means finding more sustainable ways of feeding the  world.”

The FarmGO platform currently is used to monitor two million  hectares with 82,000 areas managed.

About  Quectel 

Quectel’s passion for a smarter world drives us  to accelerate IoT innovation. A highly customer-centric organization, we are  a global IoT solutions provider backed by outstanding support and  services.

Our growing global team of over 6,000 professionals sets the  pace for innovation in cellular, GNSS, Wi-Fi  and Bluetooth modules, antennas and services.

With regional offices  and support across the globe, our international leadership is devoted to  advancing IoT and helping build a smarter world. 

For more  information: www.quectel.com, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. 

Phil Rawcliffe, Head  of Communications
phil.rawcliffe@quectel.com  

About  IoT Breakthrough

Part of the Tech  Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and recognition  platform for global technology innovation and leadership, the IoT  Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring excellence in  Internet-of-Things technologies, services, companies and products. The IoT  Breakthrough Awards program provides a forum for public recognition around  the achievements of IoT companies and products in categories including  Connected Home and Home Automation, Connected Car, Industrial IoT (IIoT) and Smart  City, Consumer IoT and more. For more information visit IoTBreakthrough.com.