Smart Agriculture and Precision Farming Powered by the IoT: Technological Challenges and Opportunities for Hanatech Inc.

物联网驱动的智能农业和精准农业：Hanatech Inc. 的技术挑战和机遇

• 批准号: 522329-2017
• 负责人: Joseph, Alain
• 金额: $ 1.77万
• 依托单位: Nova Scotia Community College
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 1
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=654853
• 关键词: Smart; Agriculture; Precision; Farming; Powered

Agriculture is a strategic economic activity and is fundamental to help and keep many rural areas alive in Nova Scotia, Canada and worldwide. In order to support the economic and social welfare of their population, today's agriculture should be productive and environmentally responsible. This requires technological innovation to maximize the efficiency of the activity while ensuring that food production delivers a good quality and reasonably priced result, complying with sustainable environmental criteria. In this context, Hanatech Inc. (Hanatech) is a Nova Scotia company developing Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, with a current focus on building systems. With the support of Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC), the company is now looking to expand into agricultural systems, helping farmers be more productive in their crop yields, utilizing new technologies such as smart sensors, farming drones, and self-drive tractors. Hanatech is therefore developing a "Smart Sensor", which includes multiple sensing functions, i.e. soil temperature, moisture, and pH, to be validated and optimized for commercial use.**The proposed applied research project will help Hanatech gain valuable insights into feasibility and productivity of their agriculture-based IoT solution as they grow their distributing capacity for their evolving business. On a supply side perspective, the future adoption of the proposed IoT-based solutions will have an important impact in terms of market opportunity for hardware providers, software providers, network/connectivity providers, and final service providers/integrators, which in turn, will translate into the generation of specific jobs in those different subsectors. The outcome also has potential to be an innovative service launched by a Canadian company, adapted to Canadian farming environment, while most of the existing solutions are deployed in warmer climates. Such an innovation represents the fastest way to boost productivity and economic growth in the Canadian agricultural sector.**

农业是一项战略性经济活动，是为了帮助和使新斯科舍省，加拿大和全球许多农村地区的许多农村地区至关重要。为了支持其人口的经济和社会福利，当今的农业应具有富有成效的环境负责。这需要技术创新，以最大程度地提高活动效率，同时确保食品生产质量良好且价格合理的结果，并符合可持续的环境标准。在这种情况下，Hanatech Inc.（Hanatech）是一家新斯科舍省公司开发物联网（IoT）解决方案的公司，目前专注于建筑系统。在新斯科舍省社区学院（NSCC）的支持下，该公司现在正在寻求扩展到农业系统，帮助农民在农作物产量方面提高效率，并利用智能传感器，农业无人机和自动驾驶拖拉机等新技术。因此，Hanatech正在开发一个“智能传感器”，其中包括多种传感功能，即土壤温度，水分和pH值，以验证和优化用于商业用途。从供应方面的角度来看，对硬件提供商，软件提供商，网络/连接提供商以及最终服务提供商/集成商的市场机会的未来采用将对市场机会产生重要影响，而这些提供商/集成商将转化为这些不同亚行动中特定的特定工作的产生。结果还有可能成为加拿大公司推出的创新服务，该服务适应加拿大的农业环境，而大多数现有解决方案都在温暖的气候中部署。这种创新是提高加拿大农业部门生产率和经济增长的最快方法。**