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Smart Farming: Manage Our R esources!. Presented by: Abdul Rahman Abid Anas Ragab Joanna Krason Elisabeth Erbes. What is Smart F arming?. Agriculture monitoring system Measure soil moisture content Measure nitrogen content in the soil Ccontrol the irrigation system
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Smart Farming:Manage Our Resources! Presented by: Abdul RahmanAbid AnasRagab Joanna Krason Elisabeth Erbes
What is Smart Farming? • Agriculture monitoring system • Measure soil moisture content • Measure nitrogen content in the soil • Ccontrol the irrigation system Cost optimization, Intervention of humen, more productivity
Systematic Design • Multi-hop • Smart Antennas 20 acre Zones Moisture and nitrogen sensors Receiver and battery system Farmhouse Computer 2
Smart Farming is important • It’s all about the effective management of resources • Limited resources of water • The high cost of the fertilizers • quality and quantity of crop: • amount of fertilizer • amount of water
Trend of water availability since 1950 Per caput water availability per region Source: The world’s water. Assessing the resource. Keynote paper at the ICWE, Dublin, Ireland
Trend of water availability since 1950 Per caput water availability per region Source: The world’s water. Assessing the resource. Keynote paper at the ICWE, Dublin, Ireland
Goal Our motives Today • Better organization of water • Increase agriculture productivity • Automatic and remote control • Networked smart machine • User and environment friendly • Predictable • Increasing competition for water • Limited financing • Independent machines • Big machines • Unpredictable
Market 6
Moisture sensor Market 6
Moisture sensor Nitrogen sensor Market 6
Target Moisture sensor Nitrogen sensor Market 6
Where to start? Pakistan • Agriculture is a main source of national income • Big market • Cheap shipment prices from China • No language problems 7
Financial strategy Suppliers • YuyaoZhaohua Electric Appliance Factory • Okystar Technology Co., Ltd. • Shenzhen Geree Electronics Company Limited • WTW Wissenschaftlich-TechnischeWerkstätten GmbH 8
Financial strategy Partners • Ministry of Agriculture, Government of Pakistan • Mr. Muhammad TauqeerHussain • Agriculture Development Bank in Pakistan • contactus@ztbl.com.pk • Asian Society of Agricultural Economists (ASAE) 9
Protection • Registration the trademark:IntellectualProperty Organization of Pakistan (IPO) • Application patent: Intellectual Property Organization of Pakistan (IPO) 10
Acknowledgements Thanks to: Erasmus lifelong learning program University of Genova Camera di commercio Genova All professors of the summer school