10 Jan 2020
Report on Technical Talk on Planned Precision Agriculture using Artificial Intelligence and IOT
By Dr.Heggere Ranganath (University of Alabama, Huntsville, USA)
Date : 10/1/20
Venue: Justice Hegde Seminar Hall, SV Block, REVA University.
Audience: B.Sc(Research) students(4,6,8) and Ms(CS) students
A technical talk was given by Dr.Ranganath(UAH) on Planned Precision Agriculture using Artificial Intelligence and IOT. He began his talk by highlighting the importance of Agriculture today, due to the increase in population by 50% in the year 2050. There is a need for more food and potable water. Planned agriculture based on the use of Data Analytics, AI and IOT in Agriculture with the aim of using less resources and gives more profit. As more potable water is used for agriculture, he emphasised that planning the crops that will be planted should be based on water consumption of the plant.
Planning agriculture is based on looking for the food requirement for the next 3 years based on food habits, consumption, population. This gives a picture on national requirements. What to grow, how much to grow, what to export. Also to cultivate food items which is cheaper to cultivate using less resources.
He insisted the use AI right from planting seed to Harvest and the various means of using IOT sensors to study the nature of soil, climate, water content etc. He said the use of sensors in drones, tractors etc to identify the various factors to be considered.
