Due to severe climate change, conflicts
between countries, and declining crop yields, the world's food crisis is
getting worse and worse. A situation is coming where we can no longer keep our
tables on traditional farming methods. In this issue, from this perspectives we’re
going to look at ‘Agritech’, which will achieve agricultural innovation as a
cutting-edge IT technology.
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‘Agritech’ farming with AI and big data
instead of a shovel,
Agritech, as a combination of Agriculture
and Technology, refers to activities that agriculture meets cutting-edge IT
technologies such as AI big data analysis to develop a series of technologies
for agricultural innovation, from cultivation to production, distribution, and
management. ‘Smart Farm’, which is familiar to us as a major technology leading
Agri-Tech, literally refers to an intelligent agricultural system. Using smart
farm technologies like IoT, big data, and AI, it can increase the efficiency
and convenience of the entire process including cultivation, production, and
distribution of crops.
Check the health of crops with deep
learning,
The success of farming depends on the health
of the crops grown. In particular, it is difficult for people to recognize the
damages by diseases and pests of crops with the naked eye because the size and
type are different. A Korean company has developed a system that can quickly
identify the damages and accurately check health conditions through deep
learning analysis.
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wipsglobal.com/ KR10-2478723 B1
'Method and system for managing crops pets' |
This technology monitors the real-time
health status of crops based on the crop images input into the integrated
system, analyzes the type and severity of damage, and predicts the spread of damages
to neighbor farms when crops are affected by pests to help prevent in advance.
From plant cultivation to barn management
with IoT,
Recently, ‘indoor plant cultivator’ that
can easily grow plants at home have been released and getting popular. It has
been difficult to create a cultivation environment that reflects each variety
and growth process of plants and to control the light source module. Korea's SK
magic has developed a light source module and plant cultivation system for
smart growers using IoT (Internet of Things) to improve this point.
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wipsglobal.com/ KR10-2475601 B1
'Light source module for smart plant cultivation device,
smart plant cultivation device and smart plant cultivation system using internet-of-things |
In this technology, a light source module
that automatically reflects and controls changes in natural light over time is
mounted on a plant cultivator to set the intensity of illumination transmitted
to each plant seed. Also the growth process of the plant being cultivated can
also be transmitted to the user's mobile phone connected to the plant cultivator
through IoT.
IoT can also help with disinfection and
sterilization systems for livestock that are susceptible to viral infections.
This technology can monitor the sensor measurement values of humidity,
temperature, and odor from the inside video of the barn through the user's
smartphone connected to the system using IoT, and it can remotely control the
barn UV sterilization disinfection device.
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wipsglobal.com/ KR10-2357974 B1
'System for sterilization and disinfection and infection prevention in pen using IoT
and method thereof' |
Agricultural equipment is also in the era
of self-driving,
Autonomous driving technology is no longer
limited to the automotive industry. Now, we can meet tractors and robots that
work on their own instead of people on farms and farmlands. The autonomous tractors
and robots in rural areas where population aging and labor shortages are
accelerating is welcome news like rain in a drought. John Deere, a global
agricultural machinery & tractor manufacturing company, recently unveiled
the fully autonomous tractor ‘8R’. It’s been reported that all autonomous
driving is possible without driver, from sowing seeds to picking up the ground
and driving.
Korean companies are also in the midst of
developing autonomous tractors. TYM, a Korean agricultural machinery company,
has developed autonomous tractor technology that can autonomously create a path
and follow without driver intervention. It is said that the commercialization
of autonomous tractors is already ahead and plans to be released soon.
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wipsglobal.com/ KR10-1339750 B1
'Autonomous Tracktor' |
Autonomous driving technology is also
applied to agricultural robots. This technology is a self-driving system
mounted on an eco-friendly weeding robot that automatically moves to the
location where weeding is needed through camera sensors and GPS to perform
weeding. |
wipsglobal.com/ KR10-2389379 B1
'Autonomous driving system of weed removal robot' |
Agritech, a protector for human food,
Now that the world is experiencing a
serious food crisis, the problem of food for us and the next generation has
already become a common problem that needs to be solved. Agritech may not be
the best solution to solve this food crisis, which is entangled with complex
elements, but if development and efforts to respond to the food crisis with IT
technology are gathered, it may be the hope of new agricultural innovation.
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