Smart Farm Management

农业仍然是大多数土耳其人的职业，有220多万注册农民，该国是世界上为数不多的粮食自给自足的国家之一。然而，超过100万台拖拉机与现有的提供农场管理和精准农业解决方案的高科技系统不兼容，因为大多数农民无法负担升级设备或购买新设备的费用。在智能农场管理项目的框架内，这一需求将得到解决，开发一种新颖、低成本的解决方案，能够优化喷洒和施肥效率，并评估其环境足迹。因此，中小型农民将能够更有效地管理他们的农场，使用现有的机械，而不必购买新的和昂贵的工具，应用精准农业解决方案，提高他们的竞争力，并对经济的其他部分产生直接影响。提出的解决方案包括三个互补的工具，一个移动应用程序，用于通知和告知农民最有效的流程，一个基于网络的应用程序，用于绘制地图，预测操作的理想时间并进行环境分析，最后是一个执行器和一个终端盒，用于控制整个农业系统。除了项目的成本效益外，确保粮食和营养安全、资源效率以及应对气候变化是社会面临的重大挑战。智能农场管理与这一挑战相一致，提供资源高效的生态创新解决方案，最大限度地减少资源消耗。更好地有针对性地施用化学品将大大减少许多与农业有关的环境问题，如地下水污染，将改善工作条件，消除农民在施肥和喷洒化学品时的接触，同时将最大限度地减少农产品的化学品残留，这些化学品被指控对消费者的人体健康造成负担，实现国家乃至全球粮食安全和健康预防。

Agriculture is still the occupation of the majority of Turkish people with more than 2.2 million registered farmers and the country being one of the few self-sufficient countries in the world in terms of food. However, more than 1 million tractors are not compatible with the existing high-tech systems providing farm management and precision agriculture solutions as most farmers can’t afford to upgrade their equipment or buy a new one. In the framework of Smart Farm Management project, this need will be addressed, developing a novel, low-cost solution, able to optimize spraying and fertilizing efficiency and to evaluate their environmental footprint. Thus, small and medium scale farmers will be able to manage their farm more effective, applying precision agriculture solutions using the existing machinery without having to purchase new and expensive implements, increasing their competitiveness with immediate impact on the rest of the economy. The proposed solution includes three complementary tools, a mobile application for notifying and informing farmers about the most efficient process, a web-based application for mapping, predicting the ideal timing for the operations and conducting environmental analysis and finally an actuator and a terminal box for controlling the whole agricultural system. Besides the cost benefit of the project, ensuring food and nutritional security, together with resource efficiency, and facing climate change is a major challenge for society. Smart Farm Management is aligned with this challenge, providing a resource-efficient eco-innovative solution, minimizing resources consumption. The better targeted application of chemicals will greatly diminish many of the agricultural related environmental problems, such as underground water contamination, will improve the working conditions, eliminating the exposure of farmers in the fertilizing and spraying chemicals and will minimize at the same time the chemicals residues of the agricultural products that have been accused of burden the human health of consumers achieving national and eventually global food security and health prevention.