crop planning monitoring irrigation
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At the conclusion of the 2011 Egypt WaterHackathon, software developers and water specialists presented their innovative ICT-based solutions to real-world problems of water access and sanitation. This presentation highlights one of these solutions.TRANSCRIPT
Abou Erdaan in the Cloud!Crop planning, monitoring, and irrigation optimization system.
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Revolutionizing the farmer !
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Presentation Parts
• 1- Mobile reporting system (Farm Frites)• 2- Cloud based farming
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Initial Problem Statement
Enabling collection of manual (visual) field crop data through mobile devices and aggregating them on a central server and integration with agricultural expert system
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Mobile Reporting
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Mobile Reporting - Location
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Mobile Reporting - Geotagging
• Automatic Field Identification• Automatic Crop Identification• Location Agricultural History
• Irrigation• Pests• Fertilization
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Mobile Reporting – Customizable Forms
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Mobile Reporting – Take a photo
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Reporting
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Reporting - Map
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Revolutionizing the farmer !
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Critical Success Factors
Benefit
Practicality
Affordability
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Multitiered Service
Pivot Control Integration
Remote Sensing•Soil moisture•Rain levels
Mobile Field Reporting System•On the field reporting of visual observations•Geo-tagged reports
Agricultural Information Repository•Crop Planning•Crop Irrigation•Crop Fertilization
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Multitiered Service
Irrigation System Integration & Control
Remote Sensing•Soil moisture•Rain levels
Mobile Field Reporting System•On the field reporting of visual observations•Geo-tagged reports
Agricultural Information Repository•Crop Planning•Crop Irrigation•Crop Fertilization
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Farm Cloud
Farmer 1 Farmer 2 Farmer 3 Farmer 4
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Why Cloud ??
• Hosted Service• No capital investment by farmer
– No Servers– No Software– No Maintenance– No Data backups– No Infrastructure
• Infrastructure only available to very large organizations– Access to reliable information– Access to latest technology– Affordability
Large CAPEX Small OpexX
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Cloud Sensors
• Completely Serverless• Conntected directly to cloud
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Affordable
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Cloud Model
AAAS
IAAS
• Agriculture As A Service• Software As A Service• Platform As A Service• Infrastructure As A Service
Questions ?