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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Market6

MarketMoisture sensor

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MarketMoisture sensorNitrogen sensor

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MarketTargetMoisture sensorNitrogen sensor

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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

contactus@ztbl.com.pk

• 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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Gantt diagram

Worry Free Tomorrow

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to:

Erasmus lifelong learning program

University of Genova

Camera di commercio Genova

All professors of the summer school

Cost

Soil moisture sensor (1-5) €

Soil nitrogen sensor

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Chips1 €

Receiver and

battery(50-

100)€

Patent

32 € Trademark

13 €Transport

ation100 €

Store(30-100)

Labours100 €