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LoRa Alliance ® and LoRaWAN ® are registered trademarks. Used with permission. ©2020 LoRa Alliance ® www.lora-alliance.org THE FARMING OF TOMORROW IS ALREADY HERE: HOW LoRaWAN ® TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTS SMART AGRICULTURE & PRECISE ANIMAL PRODUCTION machinery, tools, and trailers to logistical optimization for fuel tanks, water tanks, sensitive products. Several security issues can also be attended to by door/gate or fence monitoring. As cellular networks usually do not cover rural areas very well, the huge flexibility of LoRaWAN in covering buildings or large fields make this the de facto technology for Smart Agriculture applications. In this White Paper, we give our readers an overview of real case studies of what can be achieved with LoRaWAN applications in the poultry, swine, beef, and dairy cattle industries. Several LoRa Alliance ® members describe how their solutions help track and optimize animal production to make a farmer's jobs more efficient. In addition, we'll address bee monitoring solutions as bees play an essential role in the pollination of large fields, such as in California's almond and pistachio groves, where monitoring the activity of beehives becomes essential to ensure a quality production. Poultry Farming Tektelic & PrognostiX Webee Pig Farming Zenseio Tensor IoT & AWS Webee & Panasonic Food Retail Digital Center Cattle Farming AWS Pessl Instruments FeedLive Miromico Chipsafer & Flex smaXtec w/Kerlink + Repeater + Climate Sensor Caravan Tech w/ Orbiwise Beekeeping Zenseio Beewise (AWS) POULTRY FARMING Real-time monitoring of environmental and health parameters with TEKTELIC & PrognostiX UK PrognostiX designed its Poultry Sense IoT solution to capture accurate, real-time insights into birds and environmental conditions on poultry farms to improve bird performance and welfare. They use sensors for monitoring temperature, humidity, water consumption, and for wireless weighing platforms. Poultry Sense combines a wealth of evidence and expertise from specialist vets, engineers, and data analysts to bring together real-time data across both environmental and health parameters. The wireless system feeds accurate, live data into a bespoke analytics platform that uses artificial intelligence to produce insights for better- informed on-farm and supply chain decision making. PrognostiX utilizes TEKTELIC's (Calgary-based supplier of LoRaWAN gateways and devices) KONA Macro and Micro Gateways to provide the LoRaWAN connectivity needed for their innovative Poultry Sense solution. LoRaWAN is the ideal technology to provide cost-effective, scalable, long- range, low power, and secure bi-directional communication between devices and gateways. The KONA Macro IoT Gateway is designed to be compact and lightweight, and is targeted at rugged outdoor installations which require a small form factor and low power consumption. The KONA Micro IoT Gateway was built for indoor applications that require Always On connectivity for their IoT solutions, and comes equipped with reliable LTE backhaul and a built-in four-hour battery backup to ensure continuous data collection. Increasing animal fertility rates with Webee Webee, a California-based startup providing an end-to-end IoT toolset that allows connectivity through sensors and devices, has partnered up with a local systems integrator