BYON: Bring Your Own Networks for Digital Agriculture Applications
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| author | Sie, Emerson Tao, Bill Mihigo, Aganze Karmehan, Parithimaal Zhang, Max Sivakumar, Arun N. Chowdhary, Girish Vasisht, Deepak |
| author_facet | Sie, Emerson Tao, Bill Mihigo, Aganze Karmehan, Parithimaal Zhang, Max Sivakumar, Arun N. Chowdhary, Girish Vasisht, Deepak |
| contents | Digital agriculture technologies rely on sensors, drones, robots, and autonomous farm equipment to improve farm yields and incorporate sustainability practices. However, the adoption of such technologies is severely limited by the lack of broadband connectivity in rural areas. We argue that farming applications do not require permanent always-on connectivity. Instead, farming activity and digital agriculture applications follow seasonal rhythms of agriculture. Therefore, the need for connectivity is highly localized in time and space. We introduce BYON, a new connectivity model for high bandwidth agricultural applications that relies on emerging connectivity solutions like citizens broadband radio service (CBRS) and satellite networks. BYON creates an agile connectivity solution that can be moved along a farm to create spatio-temporal connectivity bubbles. BYON incorporates a new gateway design that reacts to the presence of crops and optimizes coverage in agricultural settings. We evaluate BYON in a production farm and demonstrate its benefits. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | BYON: Bring Your Own Networks for Digital Agriculture Applications Sie, Emerson Tao, Bill Mihigo, Aganze Karmehan, Parithimaal Zhang, Max Sivakumar, Arun N. Chowdhary, Girish Vasisht, Deepak Networking and Internet Architecture Robotics Digital agriculture technologies rely on sensors, drones, robots, and autonomous farm equipment to improve farm yields and incorporate sustainability practices. However, the adoption of such technologies is severely limited by the lack of broadband connectivity in rural areas. We argue that farming applications do not require permanent always-on connectivity. Instead, farming activity and digital agriculture applications follow seasonal rhythms of agriculture. Therefore, the need for connectivity is highly localized in time and space. We introduce BYON, a new connectivity model for high bandwidth agricultural applications that relies on emerging connectivity solutions like citizens broadband radio service (CBRS) and satellite networks. BYON creates an agile connectivity solution that can be moved along a farm to create spatio-temporal connectivity bubbles. BYON incorporates a new gateway design that reacts to the presence of crops and optimizes coverage in agricultural settings. We evaluate BYON in a production farm and demonstrate its benefits. |
| title | BYON: Bring Your Own Networks for Digital Agriculture Applications |
| topic | Networking and Internet Architecture Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01478 |