Dealing With Reality to Get What You Want

How a North Dakota Farmer Built an IoT-Driven Farm by Jeffrey Lee. Greg Meandel is not your regular farmer — he loves to build and program IoT projects that remove the complexity from daily farm life.For instance, one of his many IoT projects is an excavator that can be started remotely. By using an Electron (cellular hardware that connects devices to the internet), he can remotely heat up the excavator’s block heater, which helps start up the engine. In some cases, he had to wait hours for the internal block to heat up. Now, he can wake up and wirelessly send a command to the Electron via his phone. By the time breakfast is finished, the excavator is heated and ready to go