Analysis of Foreign Smart Agriculture Platforms

Smart agriculture is the general trend of world agricultural development, and it is also an important way for China’s agricultural modernization. In order to continuously promote the optimization of agricultural economy, achieve sustainable industrial development and regional industrial structure optimization, and further promote the construction process of smart agriculture, it is necessary to comprehensively and timely grasp the development dynamics of agriculture, which requires the construction of an agricultural big data analysis and application platform relying on agricultural big data and related big data analysis and processing technologies.

This paper lists some cases of foreign agricultural big data platforms, shows different types and development models of foreign agricultural big data platforms, and realizes the mining, analysis and application of agricultural data.

01

Iot field monitoring platform

1 United States: GroveStreams

The Grove Streams Data Analytics platform is a cutting-edge cloud-based service that provides decision making capabilities to many users and devices when data comes from multiple sources. It is designed to be easy to use on multiple platforms, from enterprise application developers to product managers, from sensor engineers to electronics enthusiasts. The platform can be easily scaled from one device to a million devices.

Sensors are widely used in modern agriculture. This data platform can make the right economic decisions for the farm by collecting and analyzing weather data, soil moisture, irrigation equipment status, yield and other crop-based information sent by the customer gateway.

In addition, farms can use GroveStreams to monitor animal health in the barn environment, monitoring temperature, humidity, water use, feed use, air flow, CO, NH3, H2S and other toxic gas concentrations, and issuing alerts. Automate feed ordering and distribution schedules with local grain elevators for farm feed usage.

2 Israel: Phytech

Phytech provides decision support services to growers to optimize irrigation strategies and increase yields. The service is based on soil, climate and innovative plant sensors that monitor plant growth in real time and provide critical alert information to growers via the web and mobile apps.

Phytech’s products and services mainly include selecting a certain amount of crops in various areas of the farm, installing sensors on them, and the sensors will transmit nearby air data, humidity data, and plant growth data to the Phytech database. Based on the data collected by the sensors, Phytech’s staff apply models to the farm’s crop growth and environment for irrigation monitoring, climate data analysis, satellite image analysis, and final prediction and planning of irrigation plans. And provide agricultural product production solutions to Phytech’s data platform, users can view relevant information on mobile phones, tablets, computers and other online mobile devices, thereby reducing users’ production costs, reducing risks, and improving agricultural production benefits.

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02

New generation farm

1 United States: AeroFarms

AeroFarms is an urban agriculture company that offers air-floating growth systems that grow and produce anywhere without soil or sun. This is possible because of the nature of their modular stackable systems, which are easy to store and enable the local production of pesticide-free green vegetables. By establishing commercial-scale agriculture in urban centers, this allows the food production system to become more sustainable, efficient and safe.

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2 United States: BrightFarms

BrightFarms uses abandoned vacant lots and empty roofs of retailers to combine the two to create a new type of garden, bringing vegetables directly to urbanites hungry for fresh, local ingredients. BrightFarms uses a hydroponic system to replace soil and deliver the water and nutrients needed to grow crops. Because BrightFarms is grown indoors and in controlled greenhouse temperatures, it eliminates the need for pesticides and other chemicals to grow healthily all year round, ensuring food safety and increasing yields.

03

Quality control

1 United States: CropTrak

CropTrak is committed to providing customers with safe and traceable food by deploying flexible farm software that tracks dirt, crops and food using advanced and web-based mobile technology. The company created Farm software that focuses on using technology to improve efficiency in data collection, management, reporting and results, while helping deliver safer food to customers. The main clients are: agricultural operators, food companies, insurance companies, consulting companies and agricultural retailers.

2 US: FreshSurety

FreshSurety is committed to providing its customers with fresh products and is the first company in history to provide users with certified food quality and safe freshness products. With real-time reporting, users can get a microgeographic location, environment and freshness of individual fresh food cartons for a few cents per carton. Its FEFO logistics management system can be used in the $600 billion world fresh food industry. Saving fresh food producers, restaurants and retailers $17 billion annually by reducing lost freight and corruption costs by 50 percent, significantly improving customer profitability.

This is achieved through a powerful solution that uses low-cost, disposable sensors powered by externally supplied RF energy to measure temperature, humidity and metabolites such as ethylene and VOC to monitor the maturity of each carton. When queried, each sensor reports individual carton status via a local WiFi system designed for cold chain environments.

04

ERP- Farm

1 United States: AgConnections (Syngenta)

Ag Connections is a company specializing in crop production management and related intelligent software development. Companies can provide users with a Land.db12 cloud API (application programming interface) that allows users and their IT staff to extract or push data information from a Land.db12 cloud server. The API will provide access to work orders, applications, invoices, inventory, products, and product information. Each API port will publish an API key so that the owner of the data source can access their data securely. In addition, API users will be able to control how often their system is updated, the format used, and what data is processed at a given time.

Main products:

One is Land.DB, which makes use of an up-to-date reference database of crop protection information. Access to EPA-approved labels, safety data sheets, and other regulatory documents to make it easier and faster to research and protect crops; It can also collect and monitor the growth data of each phenological period of agricultural products.

The second is Land.EC, which is a trading center that manages the integration of equipment. These include the Green Star 3, CNH PRO 700 and Digi Star GT460.

2 USA: AgCode

AgCode was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in California, USA. The company was founded to provide solutions for vineyard management, and gradually expanded to other high-value specialty crops such as apples, cherries, sweet corn, and blueberries. The company has established long-term cooperative relations with some famous agricultural experts to provide customers with professional agricultural management and planting experience.

The company’s current software solution services for agricultural customers include payroll, contractor tracking, equipment tracking, harvest and scale, field inspections, grower management, picking codes, mapping, seed tracking, grower management, pest control, and financial solutions; The company also provides software production, integration and mobile technology solutions.

AgCode’s main product is AM3 software, which provides farmers and enterprises with all management and data collection and analysis of agricultural products from plant inspection, pesticide reports, field notes and labor management. At the same time, the software can collect geographic data through geographic information system, integrate data, and ensure the safety of customer data. When using AM3 software, users can select the services they need, such as planting inspection report, pesticide detection report, data sorting, analysis, you can choose one of the services, or all of them, and pay the corresponding service fees.

3 Australia: Plan2ProfitAgri (P2P Agri)

Plan2Profit Agri is a farming training and consulting services company based in Linlina, Australia, providing management support, training support and business consulting services to agriculture and agribusiness in Australia. The company provides training and business support to its clients based on the PAPGRI software program, which was developed by Mike Krause, an agri-business management consultant with more than 30 years of experience working with farmers, viticulturists, pastoralists and agribusinesses.

With around 10 per cent of Australian farming businesses failing each year in recent decades, rising costs and volatility are increasing risk, making management more important than ever, yet there are few resources available to help farmers learn how to improve their financial performance. Plan2Profit Agri’s PAPGRI software is designed to fill this gap and is also the company’s flagship product.

It enables farmers to model alternative agricultural solutions and, after detailed analysis, select the best solution and make better strategic decisions. Based on the user’s actual farm and financial data information, the user’s strategic decision and its process are hypothesized. At the same time, make the right land and equipment investment, crop selection, production planning, etc. The company’s software contains more than 20 years of data information, and has professional agricultural experts, accountants, financiers and other elite personnel, aiming to help farmers realize informatization, modernization, specialization, and comprehensive services of the whole industry chain.

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05

Field monitoring sensor solution

1 United States: AGERpoint

AGERpoint uses advanced data information solutions and expertise to redefine a new management technology space for agricultural growers. Today, a range of industry-leading technologies have been developed that are improving growers’ services in agricultural data collection, data analysis, and more, enabling people at all levels of agriculture to access and query critical and valuable data that will help their business. AGERpoint also provides information management solutions for tree and grape growers, insurance companies, investors and others. It provides growers with key data, including users’ crop holdings, planting types, orchard and vineyard stocks, and real-time photography data.

Areas of focus: agriculture, farm management, information consulting, robotics, etc.

AGERpoint’s main products are AGERmetrix, GroveTracker, VitalityTracker, YieldTracker, etc.

AGERmetrix is a comprehensive agricultural big data storage and analysis platform with a mapping interface that can directly meet the needs of agricultural producers. For example: directly view the overall condition of the crop, take field notes on the platform, query data anytime, anywhere, and make changes anytime, anywhere.

GroveTracker provides many AgPoPoT products, geographic data, and various important tabular data. The service captures the geographic location and growth of each crop, such as the canopy diameter, trunk diameter, height and density of each crop.

VitalityTracker applies multi-spectral imaging technology to the basic growth of plants, making spatial images easier to view and use. Data on plant health, photosynthesis, size, and chlorophyll can be collected to classify, identify, and eliminate factors that may affect plant growth and yield in a region.

YieldTracker collects user farm crop production data and tracks it in real time to provide customers with practical solutions to increase production. Analyze the factors that can increase farm production through the collected data, and predict the improved production based on the model, compared with the present; Manage existing farm equipment; Provide planting and production plans suitable for different regions and varieties.

2 Israel: CropXLtd.

Founded in 2013, CropX is an Israeli irrigation and sensor technology company. CropX develops cloud-based software solutions that integrate wireless with sensors to increase crop yields and save water and energy. The company has developed irrigation systems that automatically apply the amount of water in different parts of different fields. Serving farmers around the world.

Areas of focus: Agriculture, technical analysis, farm management, intelligent robots, etc.

CropX is best known for its irrigation systems that help farmers better understand how much water is being used in their area, and the company’s low-cost soil sensors can increase crop yields while reducing water use by a third. In just one irrigation season, CropX sensors installed on thousands of acres of agricultural land have shown their value, helping customers across the United States to save money on water costs, labor costs and other costs, not only increasing production for users’ farms, but also improving farmers’ overall returns. Currently, CropX sensor technology has been applied to tens of millions of acres of land, saving a lot of water, saving a lot of costs for farmers, and improving agricultural production returns.

3 United States: Spensa

Spensa is a startup based at Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette. The company was founded in 2009 by Johnny Park, President and Chief Executive Officer. Spenza’s mission is to design, develop and deliver new technologies for the agricultural industry that reduce the scale of manual labor, promote eco-friendly agriculture, and improve crop production efficiency. They use world-leading wireless sensor networks, robotics and computer vision technology.

Spensa’s main product is Z-Trap, which monitors population information from pests via laptops and smartphones to provide real-time trapping data in orchards. MyTraps, a pest management software, tracks and monitors pests, documents pesticide applications, and provides visibility into operations. It monitors insects in real time based on big data systems, allowing farmers to reduce and control the amount of pesticides they use.

06

FMIS (Farm Management Information System)

MyEasyFarm, France

Agriculture in the 21st century faces many challenges: feeding the world, increasing demand for animal and plant proteins in emerging countries, reducing agricultural environmental pollution, participating in the fight against climate change, and adapting to climate change through agro-ecosystems. Finally, by making full use of crop matter, raw materials suitable for energy use, feedstock or feedstock are provided. MyEasyFarm was created by a team of experienced professionals in the agricultural and IT environment to address these challenges and provide farms with modern tools for data management and activities.

The main products include: Gestion Des Parcelles, Gestion Des Materiels, Toutes