Ranveer Chandra

May 22, 2018

Azure IoT Edge is powering Microsoft Research's agricultural monitoring and machine learning platform, called FarmBeats.

May 7, 2018

A new partnership between Microsoft and leading drone maker DJI builds on the work both companies are doing with data and agriculture that could make it easier and more affordable for farmers to quickly get the information they need to…

March 1, 2018

Chandra believes that the FarmBeats system is a unique showcase for how IoT and AI can be used in a challenging scenario to solve some of the world’s hardest problems.

January 15, 2018

Ranveer Chandra received a 2018 Geospatial World Excellence Award at the Geospatial World Forum in Hyderabad, India, for the FarmBeats AI & IoT Agriculture project. The forum is the world’s largest annual gathering of the geospatial community – people who build and use technologies…

November 27, 2017

Agriculture experts say the majority of farmers are now waking up to the value that technology and data can unlock.

May 11, 2017

The Award for Internet of Things (IoT) Innovation was presented to Ranveer Chandra, Principal Researcher at Microsoft for his work helping small farms increase their production and move from sustenance to production using the cloud and dynamic spectrum access.

March 7, 2017

Microsoft scientist Ranveer Chandra has done research in data-driven farming, focusing on drone imaging and rural connectivity. 'We are facing the enormous challenge of doubling the world's food production by 2050 without an increase in arable land,' he said.

September 17, 2016

A new project aims to use sensors and clever algorithms to deliver water, fertilisers and pesticides only to crops that actually need them.

April 1, 2016

Chandra's first revelation was that farmers could use television white spaces -- TV frequencies that aren't being used in rural areas and can be accessed for wireless Internet connectivity.