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VR Application in Agriculture

by Racketailin Projects, VR

It is not an easy task to train farmers, especially when they are unskilled workers, and modern equipment is not cheap. To avoid malfunction or injury of the workers, farmers nowadays use virtual training (VR) as their source.

VR training will help the workers get complex training and even cost less. VR also helps the workers to work out certain scenarios in a gaming mode and train their skills for automation. After VR training, workers can easily start working with real technology.

Virtual agricultural technology plays an important role in the agricultural realm and modernization. Computer science and IT both go side by side, playing an important role in the development of agriculture. The combination of agriculture science with IT and VR has led agriculture to explore new ways of applying agriculture and studying.

The concept of virtual agriculture has provided a new range of agriculture development. The architecture of virtual crops is analyzed and studied, by building a model of virtual crops using three- dimensional techniques. The techniques of three- dimensional help to improve agricultural modernization and the applications of VR.

  • VR in the Agriculture sector

Virtual Reality recreates a real working environment, which refers to the implementation of specific substances by the computer, in the virtual emissions and soil absorption. It also gives an idea of the migration process, plant, and animal growth process, and so on. The employees are provided with different scenarios and receive a certain sum of points on the completion of the scenario.

After the scenario is completed, the points are summed up and the employees are provided with a qualification certificate. If you think your first try was not good, then you can always “replay” and give it a new try.

  • Virtual Planting:

Designing a virtual plant on the computer screen, helps to know about the life cycle of plants and crops, it also saves time, money, and manpower. The implementation of the crop of the dynamic growth process is known in your computer. It helps to obtain various dynamic data that includes modern equipment. The visualization of the crops provides different methods and means to structure and research on crop ecology and physiology. The research for the plants part and root portion is also studied with the help of virtual planting.  

  • Virtual Application in teaching and agriculture popularization:

The multimedia and interactive virtual application technology combines creativity and effectiveness to help educate the farmers about the growing condition of the crop from every angle. By just moving a mouse and key farmers can experience to hear, see, and control the crop growth and condition, which is better than the traditional way.

Farmers also include the experience of changing environment and crop cultivation process of the virtual crops and planting. The technology promotion helps the farmers understand and grasp advanced agriculture land management techniques so that the process of teaching becomes easier and intuitive, with vivid images, those help in effective teaching and increases the learning interest.

Overall virtual agriculture helps to improve the efficiency of using an efficient amount of agriculture resources, which stimulates agricultural product market transaction and agricultural production management, which can realize the technical and agriculture training, education, research, etc.

Virtual agriculture opens huge possibilities for business by automating the agriculture process and showing the farmers virtually an interactive way of how farming can be operated and conducted.  

In terms of thinking of Researchers, Farmers, and Students, Racketail developed various VR Content ranging from Vertical Farming to the Study of Pesticides in Crops. For some of the below topics, Racketail used tools like Unity and Unreal to develop a real-life experience for the viewer to understand the topic in depth. 

  • VR Animated Study of Nematode Worms
  • VR Animated Study of Beehive and Varroa Mites
  • VR Animated Study of New Seed application in Soil
  • Working in Apple Orchard– 360 VR Tour
  • Mink farming and process (360 VR Tour)

Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology (MPUAT), Udaipur has used the above contents which were inaugurated as a new Digital Technology Cell in the agriculture field, is focused on, Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Internet of Things (IoT). Racketail is now a technology partner of this University to work along with them in developing a tech stack for Smart Farming and AgriTech.  

Racketail Solutions is one of the preferred partners to Enterprises, SMBs, and startups. We work in IoT, AR, VR, Mobile, and Custom Enterprise development. You can contact us at contact@racketail.com

IoT Application in Agriculture

by Racketailin Custom, Projects, VR

We all know the base for agriculture is soil. The soil provides different types of nutrients that help the crop to grow.

Different physical and chemical properties affect the soil, like temperature, pH, and moisture, which affects the yield of a crop heavily. The most difficult task for the farmers is to collect real-time data of these chemical and physical properties. Soil Health Card in India is initiated by the Govt of India which informs the farmer about its soil property on 12 parameters.

But this process even though with the fast-track method takes a minimum of 30 days period from collecting soil to a lab to report. If the soil sample is taken from a remote area, that cycle increase to 45-60 days.

Do you think a person should still rely on old methods for farming?

No, even farming has adopted numerous amounts of technologies in the last decade, becoming more technology-driven and industrialized. Using various smart gadgets for agriculture, farmers have made their work easier, efficient by growing better crops and control the raising of livestock.

The growing technology has helped the agriculture industry adopt AR, VR, and the Internet of Things (IoT). They have penetrated our life, from home automation, smart cities, health and fitness, industrial IoT, and automotive and logistics. 

Did you know in 2021, the market for IoT in agriculture has increased and reached almost $5.6 billion?

So, if you are planning to build an IoT solution for agriculture and considering investing in smart farming, then you have come to the right place to dive in and know more about IoT applications in Agriculture.

  • What is Smart Agriculture (AgriTech)?

Technology in agriculture is generally referred to as AgriTech, whereas on the other hand Smart Agriculture is used to denote IoT solutions in agriculture.

So, what is smart agriculture using IoT?

During Agriculture, IoT sensors help in collecting machine metrics and environmental information, where farmers are helped to make an informative decision, to improve every aspect of their work- from crop farming to livestock.

For example, Smart farming using their gadgets to monitor the state of the crops, farmers can exactly decide the amount of fertilizer and pesticide needed to improve the efficiency of their crops.

  • Market size of Smart Farming:

Although Smart farming is not so famous to the consumers yet, COVID-19 has constantly helped smart agriculture grow. As there’s a shortage of qualified workers and a disrupted supply chain, BI Intelligence predicted installation of IoT will increase in 2021, to 75 million.

The global market size of smart farming is expected to reach $15.3 billion, which is slightly over $5 billion in 2016 and triple by 2025.      

As smart agriculture market is developing, business for building IoT products has an ample opportunity to join in. The coming year can help these businesses be an early adopter and help pave the way to success.

  • Benefits of Smart farming in farming:

5 ways IoT improves agriculture production:

  • Better volume and product quality: The production process is controlled in a better way and maintains crops high quality and the growth capacity increases.
  • Thousands of data collected by IoT sensors: Farmers have a tough time collecting data, but with the help of IoT sensors, data of soil quality, weather condition, cattle’s health, and crop growth are collected easily. These data are helped to track the state of the business and increase the equipped efficiency, staff performance, and many more.
  • Increased efficiency of the business through automation: Smart devices help to automate multiple processes of the production cycle, e.g., pest control, fertilization, and irrigation.
  • Control over internal process results in lower production risk: The output of production helps to plan for better product distribution. The exact number of crops harvesting helps in selling the product easily, and the product will not lie unsold.
  • Helps in waste reduction and cost management: Control over the product helps in the reduction of waste and cost. When you can check glitches in the livestock and crop growth, mitigation becomes easy, which reduces the risk of losing crops and livestock.

These factors will help to increase revenue.

Racketail deployed IoT based Soil Monitoring system in Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology (MPUAT), Udaipur, a real-time Solar-powered Soil health parameter system. This system comprises a Soil Sensor that measures the value of pH, Salinity, Electrical Conductivity (EC), Temperature, Moisture, and NPK (Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potassium). This system helps researchers to analyze Lab Test of Soil and Real-Time value. The system is designed to read data every hour and using GPS Network sends the data over IOT Gateway to Cloud. The researcher even has a Mobile App to monitor these values along with the website.  This will help the scientist to study more data points of soil parameters.

More than that, Scientists can study the relationship between the Soil Microbes and Pest concerning these 7 Parameters; which can help them to understand the soil in-depth and help in artificially modifying the Soil for better yield and production.

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