Event Date: December 22–23, 2021  |  Venue: Auditorium-2, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC), Farmgate, Dhaka (বাংলাদেশ কৃষি গবেষণা কাউন্সিল (BARC)-তে প্রশিক্ষক হিসাবে লেকচার প্রদান)

On December 22–23, 2021, the Computer and GIS Unit of the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC)—the apex coordinating body of Bangladesh’s National Agricultural Research System (NARS)—organized a national training course titled “IoT Based Precision Agriculture for Sustainable Production.” I was invited as a key Trainer and Resource Speaker to present practical IoT hardware/software architectures and precision farming deployments.

Delivering Keynote Training Lecture at BARC Auditorium-2 (Dec 2021) Speaking at the BARC Training Course on ‘IoT Based Precision Agriculture for Sustainable Production’ at Farmgate, Dhaka.

Interactive Session with NARS Scientists & Officials at BARC Discussing wireless sensor telemetry, automated fertigation, and climate-smart decision support systems.

Key Technical Topics Covered at BARC

• IoT Sensor Networks in Agriculture: Deploying industrial-grade RS485/Modbus soil moisture, EC, pH, NPK, solar radiation, and microclimate sensors across field and greenhouse environments.
• Edge-to-Cloud Telemetry & Actuation: Designing reliable microcontroller gateways capable of operating autonomously during rural connectivity drops while syncing time-series telemetry to cloud dashboards.
• Resource Efficiency & Sustainability: Quantifying water, fertilizer, and labor savings achieved through closed-loop sensor-actuated irrigation in Bangladesh.

Md. Mamunur Reza

Assistant Program Director (Seed), APCU-BADC PARTNER • PhD Fellow, Atatürk University

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