Future Agriculture Farm Management

using Augmented Reality

GUIDED BY : NEENA SUSAN ALEX

NAME : HAREENDRANATH CP
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
REG NO : MES16CS042
CSE DEPARTMENT
MESCE KUTTIPPURAM
CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………………
…...3
AUGMENTED
REALITY………………………………………………………………...4
AUGMENTED
FARMING……………………………………………………………….6
EXISTING
SYSTEM………………………………………………………………………..8
DISADVANTAGES OF EXISTING SYSTEM.………………………………...9
IDENTIFICATION AND AUGMENTATION…….…………………………….11
KEY FEATURES……………………………………………..
……………………………..14
AQUACULTURE USE CASES ………………………………………………………
 INTRODUCT
ION
● Augmented Reality is a field of computer research which deals with
combination of reality with computer generated data.
● Augmented reality technology is blooming in the past few years with a
growing number of low-cost AR devices becoming available to the general
public.
● Augmented reality is typically employed in various fields , such as engineering
, education , entertainment .etc
● However, the potential of AR has not yet been fully explored. One of the
extremely underexplored areas is its application in broad agriculture sector.
AUGMENTED REALITY
● Bringing graphics to the real world
● Combines real and computer based scenes
and images to deliver unified but enhanced
view of the world.
● Runs interactively and in real time
● It adds a virtual display on top of real
images and surroundings.
● It was primarily used in architecture and
games.Now enhanced to most of the
advancing areas like medicine, banking
engineering , farming etc.
AUGMENTED FARMING

Modern agriculture is a highly complicated and complex system that syntheses a wide
range of disciplines, such as optimum farm management, precise climate prediction, and
nutrition. There are many opportunities where augmented reality can contribute and we
are particularly interested in the area of farm management. We believe AR can
contribute to efficiencies in farm management tasks as it has demonstrated in other
domains .

The goal of farm management is to increase the total farm production . Agriculture
farms can be categorised based on the type of crop, such as crops (e.g. rice and sugar),
animals (e.g. shrimp, bees, and cows), and forestry. Research has shown that optimum
farm management can improve production and reduce waste .
An augmented reality system is one that Combines real and
virtual world Is interactive in real time is registered in 3D.
 EXISTING
SYSTEM
● According to Carletto, the quality of land may be a major factor in deciding the use
of key inputs like chemical fertilizers, or adopting improved crop varieties due to
expected higher return . In the case of Uganda , with entrenched overlapping and
relatively unsecure property land rights , availability of land alone may not spur
agricultural technology adoption .

● In Thailand , the shrimp farming is done according to The closed Recirculation

system . It is the process of water being used repeatedly
during grow out period.Inthis process the quality of water was maintained at a
desirable level and no viral epidemics were discovered during the production
cycle .
 DISADVANTAGE OF EXISTING SYSTEM

Firstly, the feeding decision making is challenging. The decision on when and how much
to feed requires the information of dissolved oxygen (DO), temperature, and nitrates,
while a farmer is working around many ponds. However, there is no widely adopted
system to support this activity.

Secondly, inefficient integration with existing sensor networks. Sensor data is particularly
important in shrimp farming as usually the prawns are not directly visible. However, the
collected water data is typically analysed in the office rather than around the ponds. This
affects farmer’s ability to arrange optimum feeding as the conditions can change rapidly
throughout a single day.
● Thirdly, poor communication between farmers in the field and farm
managers in the office. Communication is critical especially when abnormal
situation occurs, such as sudden changes in water conditions. Farmers need
to communicate with experts (e.g. on-site farm managers or external
aquaculture experts) to tackle the problem.

The last, but not the least important, is training new farmers. Such training
activity usually requires a skilled farmer to be onsite while shadowing a
new farmer’s activities. The challenge here is the lack of on-site human
resources.
IDENTIFICATION AND AUGMENTATION

The application has three basic functions:

Plant recognition and knowledge enhancement

Augmented reality of sensor data

Access to the knowledge base.

The augmented reality service, match the photo of a plant, taken from the mobile
device camera, to a known plant and display relevant information for the identified
plant from the knowledge base . The service has been implemented using Vuforia SDK
.

Plant identification method is as follows:

Vuforia SDK detects and tracks the features that are naturally found in the image itself
by comparing these natural features against a known target resource database. When
the application starts, the location of the user is located. Once the plant is identified,
query is sent to the knowledge base and returns information about the plant such as its
name, common diseases, and crop index specific to that area.
Identification of plant species and augmentation
KEY FEATURES

Disease Detection and Diagnosis: Photos taken of suspect plants can be

forwarded to experts for analysis.
Fertilizer Calculator: Soil sensors and leaf color can determine what nutrients
are needed.
Soil Study: Capturing soil images, as well as pH and chemical data from
sensors, allows farmers to monitor and adjust to changing soil conditions.
Water Study: Determining Leaf Area Index from photos and brightness logging
can help farmers determine water needs.
Crop Harvest Readiness: Camera photos with UV and white lights accurately
predict ripeness.
 AQUACULTURE USE CASES

We outline three use cases to show how AR can potentially

contribute to core management tasks for aquaculture farms

Optimising Feed Management

Boardroom Farm Planning
Remote Expert Assistance
 Optimising Feed Management

One important task of aquaculture farm management is managing feeding.

Feeding is a complex decision that considers real-time water quality and biomass in
the pond, which should be planned dynamically, rigorously and systemically.
One challenge, as mentioned is the lack of the information of water conditions while
farmers are working on the farm . Alternatively, farmers may wear head-mounted AR
displays that allows them to walk or drive freely around ponds with critical
information (e.g. DO, pH, biomass value) situated right at the respective ponds.
 Boardroom Farm Planning

The key success of pond water management is to maintain

stable water quality.
An AR virtual workspace allows a farm manager to see a
time-series overview of data collected across the entire farm.
Appropriately visualised and presented information may
allow the farm manager to interact and analyse information
efficiently , therefore make better decisions.
For example, wearing an AR display, a farm manager can
augment any surface with a virtual farm model that is marked
up with streamed and/or historical DO data at different depths
across all ponds (geolocation data). This could potentially
help managers determine how to adjust their water exchange
schedule to maintain the DO values of all ponds within the
optimum range.
 Remote Expert
Assistance

Training a skilled farmer is a difficult task. With

limited human resources, it is not practical to have a
dedicated trainer who is also a skilled aquaculture
farmer. However, AR allows a trainee to be trained by a
remote subject-matter expert (SME) by sharing its real-
time view .
The expert can visually mark the view shared by the
trainee and give audio instructions in the meantime.
This potentially contribute to a more personalised, on-
demand, and effective training experience .
 BENEFITS

● Lowering fuel and energy consumption thus reducing carbon dioxide emissions
● Reducing nitrous oxide released from soil by optimizing nitrogen fertilizer use
● Reducing chemical use by pinpointing fertilizer and pest control needs
● Eliminating nutrient depletion through monitoring and managing soil health
● Controlling soil compaction by minimizing equipment traffic
● Maximizing water use efficiency
 CONCLUSION

This position paper has described some of the challenges of agriculture farm
management and outlined opportunities where AR can contribute. By
exploiting augmented reality technology in farming , it is able to identify a
number of plants with information such as common name , frequent plant
diseases and crop index matrix . It is reasonable to expect that AR could
potentially contribute to food production and therefore quality of life.
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