Creating an IoT-Based, Data-Driven Food Value Chain with Confluent Cloud | Confluent

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This post details how BAADER is using Confluent Cloud to build a data-driven food value chain by capturing IoT event data from farm to fork. It highlights the use of KSQL for real-time processing of machine efficiency data and delivery truck GPS data, integrating with external APIs, and alerting factory managers and customers. BAADER is also collecting weather data to correlate with GPS data for product quality and animal welfare insights. The post emphasizes Confluent Cloud as a fully managed Kafka service and a single source of truth for event data, enabling BAADER to focus on application development rather than infrastructure management.