How Machinery Company Jacto Is Helping to Deliver Connectivity to Brazilian Farmers

By Future Farming

Connectivity is a huge obstacle for Brazilian farms to climb the level of digital agriculture, according to Future Farming. Thus Jacto, a Brazilian machinery company, has decided to solve this problem for its customers with a plus.

In addition to the signal, clients will get also individualized projects to improve their performance using connectivity in daily farming activities. Once Jacto is a machinery company, Nokia is the chosen partner to develop this strategy. According to Fabio Torres, business manager at Jacto Next, their connectivity uses high-performance 4G or 5G with a very stable and private system. Jacto Next is exactly the sector for digital agriculture at the company.

“The next productivity leap in agriculture comes from data. In other words, every device on the farm needs to be connected. This is the big picture for the farmers to advance and we will help them to do that,” he says. Fabio knows how fast, robust, and stable connectivity is important for digital agriculture. Thus, Jacto and Nokia will support producers in designing their net according to their needs, property features, and goals. “We will make individualized projects based on signal covering to determine how many and where their antennas and radios will be. Each farm has its specific shape, terrain, and relief,” he adds.

The partnership between Jacto and Nokia aims to make available 4G connections for most of their future clients. The reason is this kind of signal has a longer coverage of up to 13 km for each antenna (until 15,000 hectares). Despite higher performance for a big volume of data, 5G can cover just 1 km or 100 hectares. “One interesting thing on private net is you can prioritize what is important for you. I mean voice, imagery, text or binary data,” he explains.