Digital Agriculture

WHIN-Purdue Agriculture: December 2020 Updates

December 9, 2020

The Wabash Heartland Innovation Network (WHIN) project, funded by the Lilly Endowment, started in 2018. It is a collaborative work in which the WHIN organization, Purdue University, and Ivy Tech Community College are developing, deploying, and demonstrating advanced IoT technologies for agriculture and manufacturing.

The Purdue Ag Team prepared a series of video updates regarding testbeds (research), education, and extension (outreach) for a meeting with WHIN board members and stakeholders on December 4, 2020.

The videos are linked below and give you a glimpse of past and ongoing developments in Purdue labs, at Purdue farms, and throughout the WHIN 10-county region.

Research overview of testbed operations – Dennis Buckmaster, Professor of Agricultural & Biological Engineering and Dean’s Fellow for Digital Agriculture
Research overview related to energy efficient computations – Somali Chaterji, Assistant Professor of Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Research overview of connectivity testing from planted and mobile sensors to the cloud – Andrew Balmos, Data/Software Engineer in Ag Research and Graduate Education
Education overview including both formal and informal programming – Bruce Erickson, Education Distance and Outreach Director in Agronomy
Extension overview with focus on UAV applications – John Scott, Digital Ag Extension Coordinator
Sensor development and deployment overview – Saurabh Bagchi, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science

View the Purdue Ag-WHIN Updates playlist to see additional project updates from researchers and graduates students recorded during spring 2020.

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