Gain access to Farmbeats meetings and teams channel?

Question

Hello,

I was wondering how our organization would gain access to the Farmbeats working group sessions and Microsoft Teams channel? I am very interested in joining and contributing to the community. Would also like to know how can I can register to acquire Farmbeats Student Kits? I am currently in talks with some rural area farmers in the Southeast US to be used as pilots to some precision farming solutions I am looking to provide.

Thanks,

Answer 1

Hello @Alonzo Mercer Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Platform and thanks for your query.

We are glad to hear that you are interested in the Azure Farmbeats product.

• Farmbeats Student Kit (from the third-party provider) is no longer available. Instead, we have a very similar end-to-end sample project as mentioned in the below links.

Jim Bennett/AgroHack: This workshop is a hands-on lab for building an AgroTech solution using Azure IoT.

Using the FarmBeats Student Kit to learn more about IoT, Digital Agriculture and Precision Farming : By Lee Stott

• Regarding Azure Farmbeats resources and further reading.

Sharing resources you can use to familiarize yourself with Azure FarmBeats. Azure FarmBeats, currently in Public Preview is available on Azure Marketplace and can be deployed by anyone. Please refer to the FarmBeats deployment guide for a step by step guidance to assist with the deployment. Azure FarmBeats comes at no additional charge currently and you pay only for the Azure resources you use.

Sharing additional ‘how to’ resources that you will find helpful once you have deployed FarmBeats
• Create farms here
• Configure rules and alerts here
• Integrate sensor data with Azure FarmBeats is available here
• Query/access ingested sensor data from Azure FarmBeats is available here
• Integrate/ingest historical soil moisture data from existing sensors is available here
• Integrate drone data with Azure FarmBeats is available here
• Ingesting sensor data here
o Ingesting historical telemetry here
• Ingesting drone data here

Shared below are resources for the first party models we have built to demonstrate how you can use FarmBeats capabilities to build your own models
• Use satellite images to create a sensor placement map here
• Using satellite images to generate satellite indices here
• Create a soil moisture heat map by fusing satellite and sensor data (should have at least three sensors deployed on the farm) here

The growing list of FarmBeats partners include
• Sensors: Davis Instruments, Teralytic, Pessl Instruments
• Drones: DJI, SlantRange, SenseFly
• Weather: DTN, NOAA (via Azure Open Datasets)
• Satellite: Sentinel-2

Github Repos to follow, watch/contribute:

Agrotech Hackathon
About Microsoft FarmBeats: University Pilot Community
Install Azure FarmBeats

FYI: Related thread comment:

Updated: 01/14/2021
Response from Product Group-Azure Farmbeats.

Academia Customers: We work with universities that use Azure FarmBeats for education and research and we have a Team and Community built around that. We also work with the education team on a FarmBeats for Students project. It’s not directly related to Azure FarmBeats but is instead a raspberry pi and simple sensors. The intention is to use it to introduce high school or undergraduate age students to AI and ML. The new student kits will not be available until later this year and are not appropriate for use on an actual farm.

Regular Production use customers: We do not have any Teams channel.

Please comment in the below section for further help in this regard.
Regarding the Team channel or any public groups, I have to check with my team and will get back to you on this thread.