How Internet of Things Sensing Technology is Applied in Modern Agriculture

Professional fish farmers are lying in bed, and they can control the aerator with their mobile phones. Without the peasants, the greenhouse film will be automatically rolled up and put down... If you tell you that you can do farmers so easily, do you believe it?

This can be! In the Jiaxing Wireless Sensor Network Engineering Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Jiaxing Science and Technology City, this possibility has become possible. Through the use of Internet sensing technology, modern agriculture has become more "smart" and higher quality.

The Internet of Things allows fishermen to “sit back and relax”

Early in the morning, Dr. Ma Kui took a bus to Huzhou City, where there was an agricultural project of the Jiaxing Wireless Sensor Network Engineering Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

When the fragrant fish is on the table, many people do not know that fish farming is an industry with high labor intensity and high risk. It is said that the fish can not be separated from the water. Once the oxygen in the water is less than a certain standard, the fish will die. The serious whole fish will be wiped out and the farmers will suffer a lot. The fish ponds are deprived of oxygen, and most of them are in the early hours when people sleep well. Therefore, farmers must check up in the middle of the night, and sleep is a luxury.

“Our IoT sensing equipment is tailored for fish farmers.” Marquee said that once fish ponds are deprived of oxygen, experienced farmers will judge whether they want to be based on the floating head of the fish. Open the aeration pump and therefore cannot leave the fish pond for a long time. The sensor developed by the sensor center can sense the change of dissolved oxygen concentration in the water at any time, and the sensor sends the information to the cloud platform through the wireless network, and directly controls the front-end aerobic device through the cloud platform.

Of course, farmers can also install APP through mobile phones. When the fish ponds are deprived of oxygen, especially at night, the farmers can remotely operate with a single finger press, and no longer need to get out of bed to open the pond and open the oxygen pump. .

Another function of the IoT sensor is the purification of water quality. In order to achieve the goal of increasing production, it is necessary to increase the density of breeding. After the breeding density is increased to a certain extent, it is unable to meet the water quality requirements for breeding by self-cleaning of water bodies. The harmful bacteria and parasites multiply and endanger the survival of fish. Cause disease. According to the situation of harmful colonies and parasites in the water, the Wireless Sensing Engineering Center uses physical trapping and killing methods to comprehensively control harmful colonies and parasites, so that the water quality can be restored to an ideal state. At present, in developed countries such as Japan, many fish farms use similar technologies to control water bodies.

Soon after the launch of this worry-free technology, the products of the Jiaxing Wireless Sensor Network Engineering Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have begun to conquer the aquaculture farmers in Huzhou. Some farmers have tasted the sweetness brought by technology. “I don’t think it’s so easy to raise fish.” A farmer who has been raising fish for many years is happy to say.

Not only the fishery, the Internet of Things sensing technology of the Jiaxing Wireless Sensor Network Engineering Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences can also be used in modern agriculture for monitoring soil, air, temperature and humidity, and automatic control of greenhouse equipment.

A new technology that subverts traditional breeding

"The emergence and application of IoT sensing technology will forcefully subvert the traditional agricultural farming model." Yan Junwei, executive deputy director of the Jiaxing Wireless Sensor Network Engineering Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said.

At a time when the Internet is becoming more and more popular, many industries are seeking "Internet +" technology in order to realize the transformation and upgrading of the industry, and agriculture is China's most extensive and promising industry. “Especially some large-scale modern farms need to use simpler and more efficient technologies to boost the output and quality of agricultural products.” Yan Weiwei is very optimistic about the application prospects of IoT sensing technology in agriculture.

Yan Junwei believes that China, especially in the economically developed Yangtze River Delta region, has higher and higher requirements for agricultural products. It not only pursues taste, but also pays attention to whether the soil, water quality and air environment of agricultural production are excellent. To achieve this goal, it is difficult to control with the traditional breeding model, which requires the farmers to change their breeding methods and use advanced science and technology.

Using the advanced technology of the Shanghai Institute of Microsystems and Information Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Jiaxing Wireless Sensor Network Engineering Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is dedicated to the development and application of sensing technology in the civilian sector, especially in agriculture. At present, the application of IoT sensing technology for fishery farming has been successfully implemented. In the next step, the center will focus on the application development of sensory technology products for planting scale.

Industry chain integration under "Internet of Things +"

Just like the explosive effect of the "Internet +" effect, the vision of the Jiaxing Wireless Sensor Network Engineering Center is not only aimed at the application of the Internet of Things sensing technology in the agricultural field, but also looks at the long-term, with the advantage of its own resources, the introduction of technical services. Actively explore the new business model of “Internet of Things + Agriculture” and integrate the entire industrial chain of agricultural production materials services, financial credit services and quality agricultural products sales services.

In many fisheries and farms, due to the limited scale, many feeds, fertilizers and other production materials are supplied by the sellers. After the production companies-regional sellers-distributors increase the price, the feed prices are rising all the way. With the scale effect, the operating enterprises incubating by the sensor center can use a large number of customers at hand to obtain the first-hand production materials directly from the production enterprises, which not only reduces the cost but also ensures the product quality.

In the Internet age, whoever has big data has the right to speak, and the customer's numerous breeding data can also play a big role. For example, consumers are very concerned about the environment in which agricultural products are grown. Then, through the next development, the sensor center can provide all the products involved in the production chain from the seed to the growth to the output through the data sorting. Data such as soil, air and water quality make consumers feel more at ease.

Similarly, integrated customer farming data can provide accurate basic data for insurance companies, banks and other partners: What is the risk of this customer's breeding failure? What are the customers using the loan and how are they used?

Yan Junwei said that in the current market where the real estate market is relatively calm, a considerable part of the social capital flows into a relatively stable scale of agriculture. These emerging farms have relatively strong demand for farming technology. In the next step, the engineering center will implant the expert seed bank in the platform according to the agricultural product segmentation field. This means that as long as you log in to the platform, even those who do not understand agriculture can directly cultivate the industry. "Advanced IoT technology will put the wings of modern agriculture to take off."