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Smart Farming:Manage Our Resources!
Presented by:
Abdul Rahman Abid
Anas Ragab
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
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Systematic Design
ComputerFarmhouse
Receiver and battery system
20 acre Zones
•Multi-hop
•Smart Antennas
Moisture and nitrogen sensors
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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
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Region 1950 1960 1970 1980 2000(.....................................m3................................)
Africa 20.6 16.5 12.7 9.4 5.1Asia 9.6 7.9 6.1 5.1 3.3Latin America 105 80.2 61.7 48.8 28.3Europe 5.9 5.4 4.9 4.4 4.1North America 37.2 30.2 25.2 21.3 17.5
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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
Region 1950 1960 1970 1980 2000(.....................................m3................................)
Africa 20.6 16.5 12.7 9.4 5.1Asia 9.6 7.9 6.1 5.1 3.3Latin America 105 80.2 61.7 48.8 28.3Europe 5.9 5.4 4.9 4.4 4.1North America 37.2 30.2 25.2 21.3 17.5
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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
• Increasing competition for water
• Limited financing
• Independent machines
• Big machines
• Unpredictable
• Better organization of water
• Increase agriculture productivity
• Automatic and remote control
• Networked smart machine
• User and environment friendly
• Predictable
Today Our motives
Goal
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Where to start?
Pakistan
• Agriculture is a main source of national income
• Big market
• Cheap shipment prices from China
• No language problems
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Financial strategy
Suppliers
• Yuyao Zhaohua Electric Appliance Factory
• Okystar Technology Co., Ltd.
• Shenzhen Geree Electronics Company Limited
• WTW Wissenschaftlich-Technische Werkstätten GmbH
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Partners
• Ministry of Agriculture, Government of Pakistan
Mr. Muhammad Tauqeer Hussain
• Agriculture Development Bank in Pakistan
• Asian Society of Agricultural Economists (ASAE)9
Financial strategy
Protection
• Registration the trademark:Intellectual Property Organization of
Pakistan (IPO)
• Application patent: Intellectual Property Organization of Pakistan (IPO)
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Strenghts Weaknesses• Useful / practical application• Easy to use• Database• Remote control• For commercial and private use• Software can be updated• Environment conservation• Patent protected against unfair
competition
• Battery based• First trail• No experience in business
Opportunities Threats
• Big market• Searching for new markets
development of existing• Expansion
• Low consumer awareness• Low cash flow high risk
SWOT analysis
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Acknowledgements
Thanks to:
Erasmus lifelong learning program
University of Genova
Camera di commercio Genova
All professors of the summer school