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What benefits can wireless bring to farmers?

Hi,

I'm a mobile telecommunication engineer providing services to a mobile operator in Ireland. I'm also currently doing a part time masters in Innovation, design & Entrepreneurship in University College Dublin and part of the course is aimed towards us developing a start-up or in my case a new line of business. One area I'm really interested in investigating is the benefits of bringing wireless to farmers. My family are all farmers (I strayed from the pack with my engineering ways) so this is where the interest comes from.

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Irrigation Pump

Hi! I have been consumed with this problem and haven't been able to find a solution. I am looking to build a rather inexpensive solar irrigation pump that can draw water out from depths of about 500 ft. I wanna combine this pump with drip irrigation. I'd like to use it for my farm in India. Looked into buying one but companies selling such pumps are super expensive. Anyone here have any experience with solar irrigation submersible pumps? Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

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Best bang for the buck sensor data collection mode

Hi, I'm just looking into recording data from our hoop houses in order to tweak our production methods. Any suggestions as to what modes of data retrieval I should consider? I'm looking for inexpensiveness, and ease of use. What methods of retrieving the data have folks tried? Hardwired, USB periodic download, all the flavors of wireless? Thanks in advance, Matthew