Empowered by “black technology”, “wisdom” creates a new landscape for modern agriculture

The five grains are abundant and the fruits are fragrant, while the rice beans roll up a thousand layers of waves. In the golden autumn season, what kind of experience is it to see only machines but not people in the wide and flat fields? Xishan District, Wuxi City integrates internet, cloud computing, and Internet of Things technology, relying on various sensors and wireless communication networks arranged in agricultural production to constantly grasp various farm information, allowing farmers to manage their farmland “without leaving their homes”.

Digitalization of agricultural machinery is the “new engine” for agricultural development. Xishan District is preparing to build a full process and full coverage unmanned farm in the the Taihu Lake Lake Rice Demonstration Park. At present, unmanned tractors, unmanned rice transplanters, unmanned plant protection machines, unmanned harvesters, unmanned aerial vehicles for plant protection and other equipment have been put into use.

The construction of unmanned farms is a systematic project, and machinery is only a part of it. It must be combined with high standard farmland, high-quality seeds, and efficient working modes, otherwise even the best machinery cannot play a real role. “Zhang Jianguo, director of Wuxi Agricultural Equipment Technology Promotion Center, said, At present, our intelligent agricultural machinery and equipment are still in the exploratory and experimental stage. In the future, the operating machinery will fully achieve autonomous operation without the need for manual remote control. By relying on intelligent technology and algorithms to replace manual decision-making, we can truly achieve the integration of ‘sky and land’, and shift agricultural production from experience agriculture to technology agriculture and algorithm agriculture

Among the 10 “Typical Digital City Scenarios” released at the 2022 World Internet of Things Expo, the “Internet of Things+Characteristic Agriculture” new business scenario created by Xishan National Modern Agriculture Industrial Park was successfully selected. In this “smart” agricultural industrial park, “smart technologies” such as the Internet of Things are covering all aspects of the park, from real-time monitoring of air and soil “smart scarecrows” to intelligent irrigation systems, from widely used electronic eyes and sensors in planting greenhouses to intelligent agricultural service platforms that integrate big data for analysis through cloud computing, the three-dimensional application of Internet of Things technology is gradually entering a better stage.