New technology boost for cherries
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Agriculture relies heavily on the weather but the Internet of Things is bringing people a new way of growing plants.
At a cherry research farm in Juyuan, 2.67 hectares of land has been divided into four blocks for the purposes of production, testing, preservation and exhibition. More than 1,000 cherry trees from a dozen different species have been planted there.
Cherries are not easy to grow in southern China because of their strict requirements as regards temperature, humidity and soil PH. Usually it needs people to collect data and fine tune conditions frequently but research fellows at the farm no longer need to do this. All the data is available on computers.
The farm has developed a way to plant cherry trees thanks to the cloud computing technology it adopts.
The platform integrates technologies of Internet of Things, mobile networks, cloud computing, RFID (radio-frequency identification) and e-commerce to realize the process from instant monitoring to feedback and even automatic enforcement.
Gu Chenglong, a senior executive with the developer, said that users could collect data through sensors to have knowledge of environment conditions. “The central system will remind users if any default scenarios take place,” said Gu, deputy general manager of Shanghai Zuoanxinhui Technology Co.
“The system will act automatically in emergency circumstances to reduce the loss,” said Gu, who is also the chief technology officer of the company.
Users may also remotely control automation equipment to irrigate or fertilize through apps on their mobile phones or computers even from more than a 1,000 kilometers away.
The whole process of monitoring and feedback not only saves the cost of manpower and resources but also makes agricultural production more accurate and efficient.
Cherry trees usually have a very low output but after the research farm used the platform to optimize management and cultivation, production greatly improved.
So far the platform and the technology not only serves farms in Jiading District but has also been adopted by users in 11 provinces and regions nationwide.
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