JACOM Hachinohe City, Aomori Prefecture, "Easy -to -use Smart Agriculture" Demonstration Experiment has been started on December 22, 2021

Image of "Hikari with automatic measurement result recording function"

As farmers decrease and the population is aging, to make agriculture sustainable, it is important to have an approach to supplement agricultural sites, such as improving labor, productivity, and cultivation techniques, and securing the bearers. In order to solve these issues, the company is focusing on the realization of smart agriculture that reduces introduction costs in order to create an environment where agricultural workers support and new farming are easy to start agriculture. Labor savings by smart agriculture that utilizes IoT, AI, and robotics is one of the most effective means of solving each problem. On the other hand, the introduction requires technology, and the hurdles to the introduction are high, such as high cost for equipment. The company's smart agriculture has resolved concerns about the introduction, with low cost introductions and pursuing convenience while respecting the operation so far. You can start smart agriculture relatively easily.

Specifically, a remote management system for labor saving is produced at low cost so that you do not have to go to the house frequently to improve the growth environment in the house.With a 3D printer packaging, the sensor unit is prepared for less than 20,000 yen.Communications can record data at a cost of about 1600 yen per year using LPWA, significantly reducing initial costs and operation costs.

Sensor unit installed in the house

For functions, the environmental sensor is connected to a single board computer, and the temperature, humidity, and illuminance are measured from remote areas.The measured data can be stored on the cloud and tabulated and displayed on the web, and there is no need to go to see the house many times a day, which leads to labor saving.

By using a highly expandable single board computer, it will be easier to add new sensors in the future, and the data to be measured according to the research progress will be increased.By comparing this data with the quantity of harvests, quality, etc., we aim to visualize what kind of harvests can be obtained under these conditions.

In addition, on the spot, the value of the stamen value was recorded on paper and it was necessary to post it to a management personal computer, so the measurement result was developed with a recording function.The work of recording by handwriting and posting to a personal computer is saved by completing it at once.Pursued convenience without inhibiting the current operation.

In the future, POC (concept demonstration) will be held during the agile development in 2022.Hachinohe City Agricultural Management Promotion Center and farmers in Hachinohe City, extracting issues, repeating analysis and verification, supporting Hachinohe farmers.The company formulates the "easy -to -use smart agriculture" in Hachinohe City as the "Hachinohe Model", aiming to spread it to general farmers.