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.

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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

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