AWS for Industries
Author: Karen Hildebrand
Karen Hildebrand, PhD is the Technology Leader for the Agriculture vertical, responsible for understanding the unique technical challenges of producing the worlds food supplies. Karen advises customers along their cloud transformation journey, from businesses born in the cloud, to those who are moving their enterprise infrastructure. As a 4th generation farmer, Karen is passionate about working backwards from the customer and helping to uncover the potential in the Agriculture industry. Prior to joining AWS she has spent over 15+ years of progressive leadership experience, including executive roles in Data Science leading global teams through agile and cloud transformations at several Fortune 500 organizations as well as founding a successful startup in the Agriculture space.
Understanding the cost of production in agriculture: How Perennia leverages AWS IoT
What does it truly cost to run an orchard, a vineyard, a farm? How do you take into account all of the inputs from planting, fertilization, irrigation, pest management, harvesting costs, regulatory assessment fees, labor costs, equipment costs, and overhead costs compared to yields and returns? It is an enormous amount of information to keep […]
Creating the Connected Farm using sensor and vision data
Feeding the world requires continuous innovation – and as data has become the force multiplier in agriculture – the need for an integrated ecosystem. There is no single solution that solves for creating the Connected Farm because every operation is different and unique in the data it needs to operate. AWS customers have shared their […]
Calculating growing degree days using AWS Registry of Open Data
The selection of specific crops (corn, soybeans, wheat etc.) is dictated by the heat units and length of the growing season. This is commonly calculated as Growing Degree Units. The AWS Registry of Open Data contains global weather datasets dating back over 200 years enabling agricultural crop breeders in the seed/chemical/fertilizer business to optimize their […]
Harvest needs: Farms need labor and innovation
Food is the thread that connects us all, and in times of stress or uncertainty, the reliance on our food producers has never been so clear. From the fields of strawberries, cherries and citrus to the rice, lentils and bread on your plate, all are the product of the generations of farmers who have invested […]