The collaboration between smart circuit breakers and soil moisture sensors brings unprecedented intelligent upgrades to agricultural irrigation systems. 1. Data Collection: First, the soil moisture sensor is installed in the field, with its probes in contact with the soil. The sensor uses forked probes as a variable resistor, adjusting its resistance value according to the … Read more
When it comes to monitoring crop health, aerial images taken from planes can only tell you so much. This is where a new type of spectral sensor comes into play, as it is directly mounted on the underside of a plant’s leaf. This device was developed by Ko-ichiro Miyamoto, Kaori Kohzuma, and their colleagues at … Read more
Precision agriculture is expected to meet future human demands for food, feed, fiber, and fuel while maintaining sustainability and environmental friendliness. Precision agriculture largely relies on sensors and corresponding data processing technologies to provide decision support for planting, irrigation, fertilization, pesticide application, and harvesting. Compared with traditional point sensors, imaging sensors combined with artificial intelligence … Read more
The AI-based mechanical weeding robot Nindamani uses artificial intelligence to automatically detect and segment crop weeds. The entire robot module is based on ROS2. Nindamani can be used for automatic weeding at any early stage of the crop. This robot is a proof of concept and prototype for agricultural robotics. This is just the beginning … Read more
In September 2023, British scholar John D. Stamford published a paper titled Development of an accurate low cost NDVI imaging system for assessing plant health in Plant Methods, proposing a dual-camera NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) imaging system based on Raspberry Pi, named NDVIpi, which can be used to compare the health status of crops. … Read more