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Growing Sussex Project Featured by South East Business Magazine

Growing Sussex has been profiled in the latest edition of the South East Business magazine. The article discusses the project’s role in helping to transform advanced wireless infrastructure across the growing sectors in West and East Sussex.

The Growing Sussex project is enabling data led decision making and supporting economic growth. By integrating technologies such as 5G, IoT and AI, the project is helping to reshape food and wine growing practices. Our collaborative approach which is bringing together education providers, commercial growers, telecommunications industry and local authority partners is creating scalable models for sustainable innovation and digital adoption. Read the article now.


GROWING SUSSEX

Led by West Sussex County Council and funded by DSIT, Growing Sussex is an exciting project to advance digital technology and data-driven decision making in food, wine and plant production. 

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