From IBM's smart winery to ADI's "Tomato Internet", how far will smart agriculture be tomorrow?

Recently, I listened to the "Wu Xiaobo Channel" of the Himalayas. The vice president of IBM and Xiaobo talked about the application of Internet of Things technology in the winery. Interestingly, ADI, which is a provider of high-performance analog technology, has recently joined an agricultural industry exhibition, and ADI engineers have posted blogs from time to time to share the company on the “Tomato Internet”. Explore the results. As a big agricultural country, China is also a country with very backward agriculture. As a technical worker, how can we achieve the “curve overtaking” by means of science and technology in agriculture? The exploration of scientific and technological giants in agricultural intelligent technology is also the future of China's agricultural development.

IBM Research has implemented a scientific and intelligent transformation at Gallo Winery to combine irrigation, soil and meteorological data with satellite imagery and other sensor data to predict the specific irrigation methods needed to achieve optimal grape yield and top grape quality. ADI's Tomato IoT is also achieving similar goals - Analog Devices has integrated hardware solutions with cloud-based IoT applications to develop a complete solution that is end-to-end accessible and easy to use, using reliable and accurate sensors Providing reliable and accurate information to farmers, cloud-integrated communication allows farmers to master the cultivation of tomatoes anytime, anywhere.

From IBM's smart winery to ADI's "Tomato Internet", how far will smart agriculture be tomorrow?

ADI's show at the National Ploughing Championship in Ireland.

ADI participates in the crop connection behind the farming exhibition "Black Technology"

A few months ago, ADI participated as an exhibitor in an exhibition that seemed to be out of bounds with high technology – the National Ploughing Championship in Ireland, and exhibited a platform and demo for agricultural intelligence monitoring. The farmer solves the problem of crop connections. “Crop connections represent ADI's vision for smart agriculture, and the system we launch here is a wireless environmental monitoring solution for the US and European agricultural markets.” Cherl Dougage, an applications engineer at the Analog Devices IoT Platforms Division, said at the show. This environmental monitoring solution effectively provides timely and actionable information, enabling growers to better utilize natural resources and better predict crop growth cycles.

From IBM's smart winery to ADI's "Tomato Internet", how far will smart agriculture be tomorrow?

Cherl Dougage, an applications engineer at ADI's IoT Platform Division, explained at the show.

The system includes a set of wireless sensor nodes, a gateway device, and an ADI Connect cloud platform. Each wireless sensor node comes with the microcontroller ADuCM3029 (based on the ultra-low-power Cortex M3), and the ADF7030-1 low-power sub-GHz radio, as well as a set of sensors for measuring temperature, humidity, ambient light and direction. The device wakes up every 15 minutes and collects sensor data.

The data is stored locally, wake-up every day, and the complete data set is transmitted to the gateway device. In this way, the ultra-low sleep current (750nA) of the ADuCM3029 and the ultra-low sleep current (10nA) of the radio are fully utilized. “The low-power nature of this type of application is critical, and farmers don't want to worry about replacing the battery. Our system can be easily deployed on the farm, and the on-site deployment can be battery powered, working for more than 10 years at a time. Easy Deploy 50 nodes and connect to a single gateway, half a mile apart,” Dougage pointed out.

From IBM's smart winery to ADI's "Tomato Internet", how far will smart agriculture be tomorrow?

Both wireless controller nodes with the microcontroller ADuCM3029 and the ADF7030-1 low-power sub-GHz radio.

The application of the Internet of Things in agriculture - "Tomato Internet"

When we go to the supermarket to pick fruits and vegetables, we often rely on visual, olfactory and tactile, through subjective "test" choices, in fact, many times when you cook hard, but found that the taste is simply terrible. Wouldn't it be better if there was a thing that would tell you all about the taste?

ADI is trying to use its technology to solve this traditional problem and start with tomatoes. ADI leverages its expertise in inspection, measurement, and conversion, as well as in-depth research into the IoT ecosystem to build a complete sensor-to-cloud solution that enables farmers to make better throughout the planting cycle. Decision making, ultimately improving the quality of tomatoes, improving economic efficiency and environmental performance.

ADI engineers meet face-to-face with local farmers to learn more about the art of tomato planting; explore the ideal taste, shape, smell, sweetness, acidity and lycopene content of tomatoes; listen to farmers in maximizing tomato yields The challenge. “Based on these insights, we have developed platform-based inspection, processing and communication solutions that accurately measure environmental data such as humidity, temperature and ambient lighting conditions, which are essential for growing the best tomatoes. Role," Dougage said.

The display prototype mentioned by Dougage was actually an early prototype deployed on a Massachusetts farm. It was originally designed for tomato cultivation, but in fact the system was designed for any crop, but ADI has significantly improved this system and used it for tomato cultivation. "Tomato Internet" familiar to many engineers in the industry.

From IBM's smart winery to ADI's "Tomato Internet", how far will smart agriculture be tomorrow?

The screen on the gateway side displays key information data for the crop site.

The prototype connects to an iPad that acts as a gateway device, collects a set of sensor data using Bluetooth low energy technology, and transmits the data to the iPad every 30 seconds. The iPad connects to the Internet and transmits data to the ADI Connect cloud platform. The results can be seen on the computer screen - the calculated synthesis results, especially the vapor pressure difference, which represents the difference between the very humid, fully saturated air and the actual air around the crop. The farmer can understand that as the vapor pressure difference decreases, the air becomes more humid; if the vapor pressure difference is too low, the leaves of the plant may rot, which poses a threat to plant health; the raw length value is a synthesis that represents the maturity of the plant. Value to help growers know when they can harvest crops.

Use this solution to monitor the growth environment of the tomato and provide tomato farmers with real-time growth conditions and trend information (take sensor information from the farm, transfer the content to the cloud application, and then pass the detailed information back to the handheld device farmer). This solution provides accurate, 24-hour monitoring of data and monitors environmental impact indicators that affect tomato quality, taste, yield, and disease potential. These are all first-hand data from the tomato vine, sent wirelessly and stored in the cloud. Using this data, farmers can take interventions such as adjusting watering, improving the soil and even determining the ideal harvest time to increase harvest and improve flavor. Agriculture in the era of "universal sensing" is becoming more intelligent

Analysis of ADI's platform for agricultural intelligence monitoring can be summarized as follows: Thanks to reliable and accurate sensors, the solution provides long-term exposure to the environment to provide reliable information to farmers; thanks to highly reliable Low-power processing, which can continue to work for several quarters without battery replacement; cloud-integrated communication allows farmers to master tomato planting anytime, anywhere; using ADI's accurate sensing data and applications built on ThingWorx can help farmers more Good understanding and implementation of improvements.

ADI calls the current era the era of "universal sensing". It believes that sensing is the most important data and information collection. This is the premise for all smart devices to do computing. With data, it can be intelligent. Digitizing. This trend has begun to spread in a wide range of applications, such as consumer electronics, industrial Internet of Things, and driverless vehicles. Agricultural modernization will undoubtedly become a new wave of experimental applications.

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