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Remote control of intelligent facilities, full control of scheduling and production forecast

2025-09-24

The main purpose of agricultural facilities is to protect crops, avoid being harmed by weather and pests, create a good cultivation environment, and improve crop yield and quality. Under the threat of climate change, facility cultivation has become an important trend in farming, reducing the risk of harvest relying on the weather. Although Taiwan's agricultural facilities industry has a solid foundation, it faces problems such as the fact that the structure of hardware facilities is easily damaged by natural disasters, and the cultivation techniques are uneven, resulting in difficult quality control and unstable sales channels.

The agricultural facility industry has been implementing the smart agriculture plan for 6 years, focus on the cultivation of different crops , the design of the hardware and software, and the promotion of the achievements to improve the smart application of agricultural facilities; crop cultivation experiments use the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence to develop facilities crop intelligent cultivation management mode, establishment of tomato and cucumber production prediction model, tomato evapotranspiration estimation technology, facility crop pest digital identification query system and other technologies. The complex connection mechanism of the simple greenhouse and the compostable elastic connection mechanism of the robust greenhouse are developed in terms of the facility hardware to strengthen the structural stability of agricultural facilities; the software design integrates domestic and foreign design specifications, advanced technology and expert experience and knowledge, and applies new wisdom. The computer-aided design technology is used to develop an expert system for the overall planning and design of greenhouses, to assist farmers and industry operators in the design and maintenance of greenhouses. The marketing and promotion side cooperates with demonstration promotion activities and education and training, integrates the industrial chain of the upstream, middle and downstream of agricultural facilities, promotes the intelligence of the facility industry, and enhances the competitiveness of my country's industries.

In the past 5 years, the domestic facility cultivation area has increased by nearly 2,000 hectares, and a demonstration field for smart agricultural application technology has been established. Smart environmental control and automatic labor-saving equipment have been introduced, and cultivation management technology has been promoted. Automatic irrigation saves more than 50% of irrigation water. The introduced equipment makes facility more efficient for reducing labor-hours and precise water use to achieve the highest benefit.

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Online Yield Prediction for Protected Culture Vegetable

 We build a regression model with luminosity below light saturation point as independent to predict the yield and harvesting period of vegetables in protected structures. The integration of Smart Agriculture System, Blockly and R language allows us to sensor light, upload yield data and predict harvest period. The results will be transcribed into Google Sheets and available for farmers to schedule their greenhouses, workers and machines.

The adaptive irrigation trigger device and technology

 Taiwan had encounter severe rainfall shortages and low reservoir water levels in 2020, which had trigger a crisis of fallowing. In addition to developing drought-tolerant crop varieties, it must pay attention to the effective use of water resources. The weather in Taiwan is undulation, and the evapotranspiration of crops fluctuates accordingly. Traditional irrigation is manually activated or timer scheduled irrigation, which has the problem of waste of water and electricity resources due to lack of precise predicted technique. Irrigation technology focuses on timely and appropriate irrigation, including two aspects, one is when to irrigate? The other is how much water is need for irrigation? This technology can predicted crop water demand (evapotranspiration), and adjusts the irrigation water volume accordingly, seeks to produce the highest yield under the effective use of water resources, and obtains high water use efficiency (WUE).

System of remote monitoring single plant leaf area and sensing environment in Facility

 System of real-time remote monitoring single plant leaf area and sensing environment in facility. This research obtains LA/LAI by analyzing images such non-destructive way to measure crop feature, then use algorithm to predict the amount of field. Sensor values show on the webpage with Visualization. Every data of sensor can set up alarm value then connect with smartphone's APP, if any sensor value higher than set-up value, the farmer will get info immediately. Low cost sensor CO2 equipment tell the condition in greenhouse in every moment, farmer can add CO2 in the necessary period. System binding remote smart switch after recognize the condition of plant to switch ON /OFF the field equipment, using this basis for the development of full automatic environmental control.

Modeling of tomato growth prediction in greenhouse

 The cropping system of green house tomato has been established in Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute that could be represent the farming system in Taiwan. The aim of this project is to establish the simulation system of green house tomato in Taiwan. The environmental and crop response information will be collected, and different model will be incorporated and validated. The final modeling system will be incorporated to the cropping system to assist the planing and resource allocation of farmer in Taiwan.

Build facility pest inquiry system software and its database

 This study focuses to set up the pest database and query system for agricultural facility in Taiwan. During their experimental period, some thrips, scale insects, aphids, whiteflies, and beetles were collected, and we built a system that uses microscopic imaging devices to digitize voucher specimens. The workflow of the plant pest digitizationis established. The query system is established using the FreeBSD+Apache+MySQL+PHP. In the study, the establishment of the “pest database and query system for agricultural facility” will reduce the risk of pests damaged plants in agricultural facilities.

Expert system for overall planning and design of greenhouses

 Based on the lack of common knowledge in greenhouse design, the self-contained structure of the greenhouse, or following previous experience, the lack of scientific technology in greenhouse design engineering, the focus on experience in greenhouse design, the lack of greenhouse maintenance and management technology, and the existing greenhouse's climate change is often unbearable. This study integrates domestic and foreign design specifications, advanced technology and expert experience and knowledge, applies new intelligent computer-aided design technology, and develops an expert system for overall planning and design of greenhouses. And can strengthen the design of the existing greenhouse maintenance, enhance the life of the greenhouse and strengthen security to ensure the stable development of agricultural production.

Development of a composite connection mechanism for a simple greenhouse

 The program has completed design of the new connecting mechanism structure enhancement and increase the bonding force of more than 30%, this new connecting mechanism will accelerate the duration of 30% and reduce the cost of 30%, improve the agricultural facility construction and assembly speed, adapt to the harsh environmental load and agricultural application needs.

Development of a composable elastic connection mechanism for a sturdy greenhouse

 The program has completed the development of a new connection method that can elastically combine related connecting component mechanisms, and establish a rapid treatment mechanism in connection anti-corrosion to reduce corrosion losses and corrosion protection costs. This new connection mechanism will accelerate the duration of 30% and reduce the cost of 20%, adapt to the harsh environmental load and agricultural application needs. The combined elastic material structure can be modularized, shorten the construction period, reduce costs, promote the application of agricultural facilities, increase economic value, improve the reliability of facilities and reduce disaster losses.
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