Project Name: Smart Agriculture Demonstration Park Project
Deployment Location: Beihai, China
Targeted Industry Type: Agriculture
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Various pieces of evidence on climate change have been appearing on our planet from all parts of the world. Most common ones are global warming and increasing CO2 level in the atmosphere that together pose a great danger to our living environment and threaten our very existence. According to many academic research, food industry is expected to bear serious repercussions for the growth, quality, and productivity of crops due to degrading environmental conditions. In fact, food insecurity and climate change are two interconnected concepts that can positively or negatively affect each other (Ogada et al, 2020).
What does this mean for the rural population heavily dependent on traditional agriculture? From their perspective, unless any socioeconomic measures or technological knowledge is shared with the rural population, our society is creating yet another group of vulnerable populations who would unwillingly fall behind (Figure 1). Luckily, however, advanced technological concepts like “precision agriculture” enabled by IoT solutions shared some optimism on growing efficient, profitable, and good quality crops (Agrimonti et al, 2020).
Figure 1. Necessity of Closing Technological Resource Gap
Between the Urban and Rural Areas
Ⓒ Doris Liou (The New York Times, 2019)
What’s the Challenge?
How to reduce the waste of natural resources, lower the labor inputs, and increase the yield in crop cultivation?
What’s the Project About?
Seeed’s IoT innovation enabled by SenseCAP wireless IoT sensors and gateways has been deployed in many scenarios of precision agriculture and smart farming. In 2019, the local government of Yinhai District of Beihai City in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR) of China decided to partner with Seeed, Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences (GAAS), and a Beijing-based system integrator, to implement a smart agriculture pilot project. The pilot project was located at Smart Agriculture Demonstration Park (200 hectares) in Yinhai District (Figure 2).
Figure 2. Smart Agriculture Demonstration Park in Beihai of Southern China
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