Our Vision
Effectively Integrate IoT Technology Into Farming To Reduce The Need For Manual Labor
Farming has always been known to many as a very laborious process. Farmers have to work long, gruelling hours just to maintain their crop. After seeing this problem, we decided to use technology to try and combat this issue.
Our Mission
Here at GSF, we aim to utilize technology including micro controllers, artificial intelligence, and IoT to expedite agriculture. We have assembled a team of research interns that experiment and develop new methods to make farming more efficient. Farming has always been known to many as a very laborious process. Farmers have to work long, gruelling hours just to maintain their crop. After seeing this problem, we decided to combat this issue.
Farmer’s have to work in difficult environments that consist of problems such as weather, disease, hazardous conditions and a lack of useful tools. We are looking to change the narrative and turn farming into a white-collar job.
Our Work
Research To make a farming better workplace.
In GSF we are focussing on multiple verticals.
IoT Automation
IoT or the internet of things is a system of interconnected devices that can receive and transfer data over a wireless network. What we want to do is create an IoT Automation System that can collect data from thousands of sensors, and this can be used to read soil reports, rainfall, and humidity data. To transmit this data, there were four network protocols or means of data transmission available. Bluetooth, WiFi, Cellular and LoRa. We decided to go with LoRa because this gave us a longer range however also providing low power that can last for years. A long range is necessary for capturing data all over a farm, and a low power has the ability to run for prolonged periods of time. This is also significantly cheaper than cellular, which has long range but requires high power. At the moment, we are using this technology to develop a smart Irrigation System.
AI In Agriculture
Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly better when it comes to pattern recognition, and we feel that this could help in some areas of agriculture. One example of this is disease recognition. Many plant diseases such as chlorosis display external symptoms. If artificial intelligence can begin to recognize these symptoms early on, then a lot of these diseases could be eliminated before they spread to other plants. The ultimate goal is that data collected by our IoT Automation system will be used to develop machine learning models to detect diseases in plants, the presence of pests, and also poor plant nutrition on farms.
Robotics
Robotics has been a field that has helped many different industries, and agriculture is no exception. A benefit of robotics is that it can perform the repetitive tasks of farming, and this opens up the ability for the farmer to focus on improving the overall yield instead of the labor aspect. A project that we have in the works is a robotic arm that can harvest without having the farmer step outside at all. The farmer operates the robotic arm from indoors, and the advantage of this is that it limits the amount of manual labor and prevents the farmer from being exposed to extreme weather.
Vertical Farming
Vertical Farming is a unique way of growing crops on many different vertically stacked levels. Vertical farming often incorporates controlled environment farming which use other methods like soilless farming and controlled temperature. The most common methods that people use for vertical farming are hydroponics,aquaponics, and aeroponics. The hydroponics method does not involve using soil, though it may involve using other growing mediums such as gravel and coco coir. The nutrients in hydroponics farming come from many different places but most commonly from artificial nutrient solution. Another method of vertical farming is aquaponics, this method is much different from hydroponics. Aquaponics is a type of farming that brings aquaculture (raising aquatic animals, mostly fish but others too) and farming together. Vertical farmers do this by using the fish manure as nutrients to grow plants. That water gets cleaned and sent back to the pool. Aeroponics is a method of growing crops that unlike hydroponics doesn’t use a nutrient solution, and is different from aquaponics because it doesn’t use fish minerals. Aeroponics has no growing medium or soil instead is grown straight into water.
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