AI services in precision farming

Developed within the scope of the Green.Dat.AI Horizon EU project.

In My Farm application, the ITC have developed a module in which the farmer can define prescriptions for precision fertilizing of the fields.

Under the umbrella of the DIH Agrifood, KGZS Zavod Murska Sobota, and Green.Dat.AI Horizon project, ITC had established the partnership with Laboratory for Geospatial Modelling, Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence, of the University of Maribor, where we developed the module for generating fertilizing prescription maps with AI and mapping tools, where we are using Gemma Fusion Suite REST API services and services developed by partners in Green.Dat.AI project.

In that way, we optimized the process of generating prescription maps:

Farmers don't have to take soil and plant samples on the field and there is no need for LAB analysis of those sample
Farmers advisory service doesn't have to make laboratory analysis of the samples
Farmers' advisory service doesn't have to create fertilizing prescription maps manually
Farmers and farmers' advisory service time and cost savings are enormous. For example, farmers' advisory services can prepare hundreds of prescription maps instead of dozens for the same price and time consumption.

The above example of the use case is in beta stage of development. For near future there are two another functional modules in development:

Improved learning of various plant pests and disease detection models by learning from different users, with different crops and different pests and diseases
Generation of the soil-health status map and harvesting optimisation recommendations, by integration of various data sources (i.e. IoT, satellite, and laboratory samples)