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How 5G Is Quietly Transforming the Indoor Farming Industry
Episode 124 of The 5G Podcast explores how 5G connectivity is enabling a new wave of indoor vertical farms. Lucas and Luna visit a case study: a 50,000-square-foot lettuce and herb farm in Newark, New Jersey, that uses 5G to monitor every plant with thousands of sensors, adjust water and light in real time, and reduce energy costs by 30 percent. They discuss how network slicing keeps the farm's critical data separate from consumer traffic, the role of edge computing in processing images from 4K cameras, and why 5G's low latency matters more than raw speed for this application. The episode…
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