{"id":203996,"date":"2026-04-20T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/researchers-use-artificial-intelligence-to-help-farmers-local-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T08:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:05:14","slug":"researchers-use-artificial-intelligence-to-help-farmers-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/researchers-use-artificial-intelligence-to-help-farmers-local-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers use artificial intelligence to help farmers | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockymounttelegram.com\/news\/local\/researchers-use-artificial-intelligence-to-help-farmers\/article_b269d86c-9487-4ed7-ae06-66c40082ca71.html\">Researchers use artificial intelligence to help farmers | Local News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockymounttelegram.com\/news\/local\/researchers-use-artificial-intelligence-to-help-farmers\/article_b269d86c-9487-4ed7-ae06-66c40082ca71.html\">https:\/\/www.rockymounttelegram.com\/news\/local\/researchers-use-artificial-intelligence-to-help-farmers\/article_b269d86c-9487-4ed7-ae06-66c40082ca71.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-20 07:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.rockymounttelegram.com\">www.rockymounttelegram.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>East Carolina University researchers, led by Dr. Ciprian Popoviciu and Colby Sawyer, are using AI and IoT to gather and analyze real-time data from sensors in Hyde County&#8217;s farms and canals.<\/li>\n<li>They developed Piton, an IoT platform, to deploy low-cost sensors to collect environmental data, aiming to ease the monitoring burden on farmers.<\/li>\n<li>The AI-agent developed by Sawyer processes this sensor data and provides actionable alerts and recommendations to the farmers directly via an app.<\/li>\n<li>The farmers can rely on automated alerts and decisions, potentially saving time and enabling better crop management and environmental monitoring.<\/li>\n<li>The team is working on expanding the use of their technology to other farms in Hyde County, encouraging the next generation of farmers to use AI in their operations.<\/li>\n<li>The long-term vision includes integrating this technology on a broader scale, possibly with funding from local or state governments and aiming for accessibility for all small and medium farms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers use artificial intelligence to help farmers | Local News https:\/\/www.rockymounttelegram.com\/news\/local\/researchers-use-artificial-intelligence-to-help-farmers\/article_b269d86c-9487-4ed7-ae06-66c40082ca71.html Publish Date: 2026-04-20 07:45:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/rockymounttelegram.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/a\/4d\/a4db059b-6922-4567-8f7e-1c3644906929\/69e602a4c2daf.image.jpg?crop=1763%2C926%2C0%2C124&resize=1200%2C630&order=crop%2Cresize","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-203996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203998,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203996\/revisions\/203998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}