With the help of a $10.8 million grant from the federal government’s Digital Technology Supercluster, a consortium of Canadian companies and one university intends to create the world’s first interactive planning software for both autonomous and precision agriculture applications. The intent is to design a program that tracks and displays vital agronomic and geographic information in a single easy-access platform. Dubbed the Standard Data Platform for Autonomous Agriculture (SDPAA), its builders include Lethbridge-based Verge Ag, Terramera, QuantoTech Solutions, i-Open Technologies and Simon Fraser University.

It seems all economic sectors are now talking about how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning will change the way business is done.

In an age of precision farming and mobile management apps, farmers have become increasingly aware that security and protection of the massive amount of data they generate is a crucial aspect of handling that information.