Vodafone Business and Hitachi Consulting teamed up to deploy a connected farming solution using IoT technology at the Calliope Station, a 70,000-acre farm raising 7,000 heads of cattle in central Queensland in Australia.
The IoT solution includes the deployment of water monitors, soil moisture sensors, weather stations and drones across the extensive problem to detect and predict in real time potential problems  and resolve them as needed. This helped to address the daily challenges that Calliope Station face in ensuring the welfare of livestock is met despite the manual labour shortage.
Through this project, Calliope Station has seen greater production efficiencies, shortened durations in finding problems, improvements in manpower deployment, and vastly enhanced animal welfare – benefits that were gained through better connectivity across the farm through IoT.
