NZ Rural Broadband

NZ Rural Broadband: Making Precision Agriculture Possible

22 November 2012

http://www.iitp.org.nz/events/canterbury/668-NZ_Rural_Broadband_Making_Precision_Agriculture_Possible

Tonight’s Panel

• Dr Armin Werner -‐ Precision Agriculture Research Manager, Lincoln Ventures Limited, commencing January 2013.

• Jake Vargo -‐ Rural Sector Sales South Island, Vodafone.

• Reg Hammond -‐ Independent Policy Consultant at InternetNZ.

RBI Jake Vargo Rural Sales, South Island

The RBI delivers benefits to the whole community

logistics

education

farming

households

health

Wireless connectivity available to remote areas

• 154 new cell towers • 387 upgraded towers • 6,200sqKm new coverage • Additional 240,000 households in coverage

Wireless

What have we done so far?

Since the start of the programme we have built over 20 new towers and upgraded over 130

Large areas of the country now have greater access to fast and reliable Fixed and wireless broadband services

Over 75k addresses now have access to rural broadband services

Areas with great Wireless coverage include

Waikato & Greater Auckland Canterbury & Ashburton

Dunedin & Invercargill

Wireless Broadband is delivered using an external antenna (yagi) and WiFi modem

• External antenna for better performance

• WiFi router delivers in-home broadband. Connectivity can be wireless or by Ethernet cable

Typical RBI towers...

Maximum peak Wireless Broadband

speeds Typical dial up

speeds

Wireless Broadband & Calling 4

Install only $199

Includes calling options and all local calls $110 per month for 10GB data* No need for a fixed calling line** Data Angel included Buy more data if you need it ($20 for 5GB) Great alternative to satellite

* Not compaRble with staRc IP ** Required for faxes or alarm lines

Check text info to ensure customer address is in WBB coverage...

Use additional converge map checker to drill into customers address and land...

No WBB available

Thank you

Precision Agriculture Infrastructure Limitations and Possibilities Reg Hammond

Infrastructure Limitations

" What are farmers looking for – order of priority? — coverage, — mobility, — speed/bandwidth, — price.

" What’s available now? — fixed copper – low quality dial up for many. — cellular mobile – often coverage problems & 2G low

bandwidth — satellite – expensive — fixed wireless reliant on fixed copper backhaul

Infrastructure Possibilities

What does the RBI bring to rural communities over next 3 – 6 years?

— Coverage – broadband extended to 97.76% of NZ households (86% of rural households) > 5Mbps. 98.7% of NZ households > 1Mbps

— Mobility - ~ 94% of this will be mobile coverage – remainder will be fixed copper

— Speed/bandwidth, Chorus/LFC fibre (schools in rural) 100Mbps; Vodafone Cellular > 5Mbps – potentially dependent upon Vodafone getting 700MHz spectrum.

— Price – with averaging it will be the same as urban.

Infrastructure Possibilities

" What is possible – for most? — Coverage – if Vodafone and Telecom get the 700MHz

spectrum mobile broadband coverage will be significantly improved – InternetNZ, Rural Women submitted that there should be a requirement that 700MHz should be rolled out in rural first.

— Chorus – has to connect rural schools and Vodafone towers with fibre for backhaul. Almost certain they will also connect many rural cabinets with fibre significantly improving fixed copper broadband backhaul services – so may be increase in competition.

— Base stations / Wi-Fi Hot spots – improved backhaul for fixed copper may well open up opportunity for e.g. a farm to operate its own local wireless network on the farm – using the fixed network for backhaul.

— Cognitive radio – ability to roam across various vacant spectrum bands including TV and Mobile

" What is possible – for the few (1.3% or 14% < 5 Mbps) — Fixed copper – will almost certainly improve for some. — White space (unused spectrum) – only one component of the

problem but potential for communities (for example in a rural valley) if someone can deploy the network and arrange backhaul. Possibility that Vodafone or Telecom might do this if local community funded the extension infrastructure.

— Base Station/ Wi-Fi Hot spot – based at rural school. InternetNZ and the 20/20 communications Trust currently undertaking series of case studies. The situation is that rural schools find it hard to fund fibre broadband and will not use the capacity. Opportunity to share capacity and costs with community by using the school as a hub. Some non-technical problems.

— TSO review – Funding issues.

Thanks

[email protected]

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Armin WERNER LINCOLN VENTURES LTD

IITP, Christchurch 22nd Nov 2012

NZ Rural Broadband: Making Precision Agriculture Possible

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Precision Agriculture // Background

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Precision Agriculture -‐ a descrip<on -‐

using digital informa3on to manage agricultural produc<on

• collect data and interpret • make decision • control equipment • monitor and document results • reanalyse decision

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typical features

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typical features • uses sensors • uses GNSS (global positioning systems) • uses geo-information • creates geo-information • exchanges digital information • controls equipment digitally

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typical features

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Who we are

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ABOUT US //

ROLE / STRUCTURE: • R&D company servicing Agriculture, Industry and the Environment. • 100% subsidiary of Lincoln University with an independent board

FINANCIALS / STAFF PROFILE: • Turnover ~ $6.4m • 36 FTE’s across Christchurch and Hamilton offices

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CAPABILITIES // GROUNDWATER ASSIMILATIVE CAPACITY RESEARCH

HYDROLOGICAL AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES CONTROLLING THE FATE OF NITRATE IN GROUNDWATER:

• Multi-scale: test tube - catchment • 2 study catchments (Waikato) • Integrated groundwater flow & transport modelling

NO3 Reduced groundwater

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CAPABILITIES // OVERVIEW

SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES

GROUNDWATER PROCESSES

CHEMICAL APPLICATION RESEARCH &

TRAINING

IT MODELLING & IRRIGATION SOFTWARE

PRECISION AGRICULTURE

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Precision Agriculture -‐ as today -‐

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GPS-‐guidance and auto-‐steering systems

Yield mapping with combines

GIS-‐ & GPS-‐supported plot-‐management

Variable rate ferRlizaRon of P, K, lime

Techniques from Precision Farming that are applied increasingly in NZ

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Geo-‐coded Data as Informa<on for Managing Nitrogen-‐Fer<liza<on

Using op<cal sensing

YARA-‐N-‐Sensor (Yara Ltd.)

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and linking with maps of • soil characteris<cs • last years crop performance • environmental risks

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and linking with maps of • soil characteris<cs • last years crop performance • environmental risks

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DSS-‐module for spa<ally differen<ated sowing rates Implemented in AgroCom-‐SoRware (= Claas Agrosystems) Winter Wheat (Roth & Kühn 2003)

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Precision Agriculture -‐ as tomorrow -‐

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Images: h_p://www.valleyirrigaRon.com/page.aspx?id=2342&pid=42

Precision Irriga<on (based on digital soil-‐maps)

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Precision Farming (network of soil moisture sensors)

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Precision Farming (data on several scales)

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Precision Dairy Farming (based on digital sensors)

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Rural Broadband: precondi<on for effec<ve Agricultural Work

from: Lamb 2011

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Source: Google Maps

rule servers

(2) Water supply, e.g. maximum uptake 10 m3/h

Standards/Rules

(1) Protec<ng Soil fer<lity, e.g. ≥ 40 % of cropland have to be covered with plants or stubble during winter

catalogue server

support farmers in decision making and real-‐Rme management in field operaRons

control system to comply with standards

online, machine-‐readable

e.g. site-‐specific N-‐fer<liza<on

Automated exchange of regula<ons and standards Example = Cross Compliance in EU-‐payments

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Rural Broadband: profitable and environmental friendly farms

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Precision Agriculture

-‐ demand on bandwidth for digital communica<on -‐

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Precision Agriculture -‐ use cases -‐

• head mounted camera in crop inspec<on: (1,5 Gbit / sec)

• milking robot • upload cow tracking data (500, 1 day): (10Gb) • milking parlor (100 MB / 5 min)

• combine at wheat field: (300 Kbit / sec) • yield mapping • moisture, protein, fibre • documenta<on (e.g. video of field)

• octocopter at deer herd (virtual fencing) (300 Kbit / sec)

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Digital Revolution in Agriculture “Takes place without the Farmers” (VDI 06th Nov. 2012)

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Digital Revolution in Agriculture - are you involved ? - how will you benefit?

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NZ Rural Broadband - Making Precision Agriculture Possible

Technology

coverage broadband

rural households

fixed copper broadband

rural schools

rural communities

rural valley

rural cabinets