Iran-Made System Facilitates Monitoring Agricultural Lands Based on IoT
“We participated in this national event with a product based on the Internet of Things with application in monitoring and controlling the agricultural lands and cargo products,” Mehdi Etemadi, a member of the electrical and electronics faculty of Islamic Azad University’s Rasht branch, told ANA on the sidelines of Asr-e Omid event and exhibition in Karaj.
“The hardware of the system was produced by the specialists at the university and it continuously takes samples and sends to the database the information related to the soil, plant growth and environmental parameters like radiation, temperature, carbon dioxide, oxygen, soil and root moisture, longitudinal and transverse growth, etc.,” he added.
Etemadi explained that the information will be used for different purposes, including monitoring, product quality review, or in terms of statistical issues and volume assessment.
The fourth edition of Asr-e Omid (Age of Hope) exhibition with a main focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) was held on the campus of Islamic Azad University’s Karaj branch located near Tehran on October 14-17, 2023.
A large number of Iranian idea makers, young inventors, knowledge-based companies and leading scientific centers participated in the event to display their latest achievements.
In a relevant development in September, Iranian researchers had designed a system which helps smart agriculture by omitting the need for round-the-clock monitoring of manpower and controlling the environmental conditions and irrigation equipment.
“We have succeeded in finding a comprehensive solution for making agriculture smarter which can be used in the field of smart city and smart home; the initial steps have been taken in a specialized way in agriculture and we intend to develop it further,” Behzad Khanjarian, the managing director of the knowledge-based company, told ANA.
“In this system, a set of hardware and software is provided to the customer which is always managed by the service provider. In other words, to control greenhouses, we install a number of sensors in that place which transmits information to the server with specific measurements; then the information is sent back to the greenhouse hardware devices and the controller controls the environmental conditions and irrigation automatically,” he added.
Noting that the customer has no involvement in the service, Khanjarian said, “The smart agriculture system of our company is wireless, and we use artificial intelligence and fuzzy logic (one of the advanced digital control methods) to manage the software of the farm which are the distinguishing features of this product.”
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