IMPLEMENTATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS IN THE AGRICULTURAL FIELD: AGRODATA PROJECT

Abstract

The agricultural field has become an increasingly dynamic field. Precision agriculture and new technologies implemented in this field are new well-defined concepts based on those currently existing on farms. In order to maximize agricultural production, farmers have become aware of the need to implement these new technologies. Once implemented, their role is to reduce farm costs, increase crop productivity but especially to produce more efficient management and timely management of the farm by providing a real-time dashboard. The AGRODATA project aims to create digital orthophotoplanes in order to highlight certain parameters of agricultural crops, such as the degree of attack of diseases and pests, the degree of water reserve in the soil, the amount of chlorophyll, soil moisture and its pH. The project was founded by the Research-Development Station for Agriculture Brăila, together with the company Livadi SRL, Brăila. At the same time, Agrodata has the role of implementing the digital environment in farms and creating a "dashboard" of farms, an overview through which farmers can see in due time, each crop (on all its phenophases). Through the AGRODATA project, crop surveillance systems were implemented through the use of state-of-the-art drones, equipped with artificial intelligence, the implementation of sensors that monitor the factors that act on crops (temperature, humidity, pH, etc.). The results of the project were very good, following the drone flight over the agricultural crops of Livandi SRL, the following parameters were identified: the amount of mobile phosphorus, the amount of salts, the amount of potassium in the soil and mobile nitrogen, the parameters that will be described in what's next.