Pig & Poultry Fair 2026, NEC Birmingham
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Today Matt is visiting the Pig & Poultry Fair 2026 at the NEC Birmingham, exploring how technology, automation, connectivity, and monitoring systems are continuing to shape modern farming and agricultural operations.
The event brings together farmers, agricultural businesses, equipment manufacturers, livestock specialists, feed companies, technology providers, and industry experts from across the UK farming sector.
For M2MGubbins, it is always valuable to see how industrial IoT and connectivity technologies are being applied into real-world agricultural deployments.
Modern farming increasingly depends on reliable data and remote visibility to improve efficiency, animal welfare, environmental monitoring, and operational decision-making.
Across the event there is a strong focus on:
Environmental monitoring
Livestock welfare
Automation and control systems
Energy efficiency
Remote monitoring
Data-driven decision making
Sustainable farming technologies
Infrastructure resilience
Agricultural environments often present the following engineering challenges:
Large outdoor coverage areas
Remote infrastructure
Difficult connectivity
Harsh environmental conditions
Power limitations
Reliability requirements
These are all areas where technologies such as LoRaWAN, cellular connectivity, industrial gateways, sensors, and edge processing can provide practical operational benefits.
It is also interesting to see how rapidly connected technologies are becoming part of everyday agricultural operations, from monitoring buildings and environmental conditions through to livestock tracking and automated alerting systems.
Events like this are always a good reminder that successful deployments are not just about technology — they are about creating practical, reliable systems that solve real operational challenges.
Matt Jameson at the Pig & Poultry Fair, NEC Birmingham If you are attending the Pig & Poultry Fair and would like to discuss remote monitoring, industrial IoT, connectivity, or agricultural technology projects, feel free to get in touch.
