A Connected Farm, part 1 - Milking 🐄 🥛
Alongside my work as a System Engineer (with a focus on Kubernetes) at PostFinance, I’m married to a farmer in Switzerland, and live with her and her family on the family farm. This is quite different from my daily work, and I sometimes have the opportunity to help by, for example, feeding calves during milking, using my skills to install surveillance cameras, deploying a long-distance WiFi network across the farm, or modernizing the milking monitoring. It’s this latter point that I’m detailing today (without all the technical details, which are covered in the README of the open-source project I’ve created for this purpose). ...