The main objective of the MIRA project has been to improve the productivity, efficiency and resilience of extensive crop farms, by supporting agronomic management through technologies based on the Internet of Things. In this sense, the project aims to get more out of the tools and facilities, providing them with greater capacity to collect information and interact with resources available on the Internet in order to facilitate more precise management of the entire cultivation cycle. The functionalities targeted consist above all of facilitating decision-making when planning the main agronomic operations (sowing and fertilizing).
As a common thread that allows paving the way for the adaptation of the IOT to the requirements of extensive crops in Spain, a solution will be developed that will provide sensors with Internet connectivity to various tools and infrastructures that allow a variable application in the context of crops. extensive.
vThe main objective of the MIRA project is to improve the productivity, efficiency and resilience of extensive crop farms, by supporting agronomic management through technologies based on the Internet of Things. In this sense, the project aims to get more out of the tools and facilities, providing them with greater capacity to collect information and interact with resources available on the Internet in order to facilitate more precise management of the entire cultivation cycle. The functionalities targeted consist above all of facilitating decision-making when planning the main agronomic operations (sowing and fertilizing). It will also support maintenance tasks of machinery and facilities, to make them more economical and sustainable.
The project seeks greater coordination between the different operations and actors involved in the work chain of extensive crops. That is why it also includes the role of agricultural service companies. From a technical point of view, a key aspect is the interoperability between the data collected or consumed by the various applications that have to do with any of the operations or actors involved in this area. In this sense, the Internet of Things (IOT) brings together a set of technologies that deal with the interaction through the Internet between a wide range of physical devices, which include machinery and facilities, with other hardware or software elements that allow them collect and exchange data. The IOT provides the infrastructure so that devices can interact through standardized protocols, opening new opportunities for the integration of systems that until now were isolated, with the consequent improvement in coordination of efforts and the ability to optimize processes.
As a common thread that allows paving the way for the adaptation of the IOT to the requirements of extensive crops in Spain, a solution will be developed that will provide sensors with Internet connectivity to various tools and infrastructures that allow a variable application in the context of crops. extensive. In this sense, sensors with internet connectivity will be installed on tractors, seeders and fertilizers.
1. Provide sensors to the sowing, fertilizing or spraying machinery to monitor the actual application intensity and improve efficiency in the application of the recommended doses as well as collect data from said work.
2. Manage the dosing and handling functions of the machines with a mobile app (which will be fully developed), which will collect data on the machine itself and its use. The APP will communicate through a radio frequency link (Wifi-direct, BLE, etc.) with electronics also developed especially for this purpose.
3. This application will also act as a GATEWAY so that it will transfer the data collected from the machine to a database in the cloud.
4. Develop a responsive web front-end (adaptable to the size of the device being viewed) that allows managing and viewing the data collected from any point where there is an internet connection.
Study and design of an advanced and intuitive control system through a mobile application, with the added functionality of consulting usage data via the web for the manufacturer and the user.
The agricultural machinery sector needs to obtain data from its machines. After doing a study of the existing machine control systems on the market, we saw that there was no control system capable of being configured to manage different machines, control the dosage of products, collect data and send it to the cloud to be able to process it. Based on a preliminary study, we have reached an agreement between the parties of the MIRA project to develop a system with a series of common requirements:
1. It must be configurable to manage a seeder, a fertilizer spreader or a sprayer, being able to control the dose of each product, applying it very precisely at a rate of units per hectare.
2. There will be special attention to the aesthetics of the App, with the anagrams of each manufacturer per flag, as if it were a product specific to each manufacturer who purchases it.
3. Said system must record a series of data, update it and transmit it to the terminal used (Smart phone or Tablet).
4. The App must transmit said data to the cloud, and once there it must be accessible to the manufacturer and also to the owner of the machine.
5. We are going to create Hardware, firmware and software capable of meeting all the requirements and manufacturing the prototype.
