Winter 2012. Wake up in the morning and feel cold around kashiihama ryugakusei kaikan, I’ve check weather on my phone and it’s about -1 degrees, wind heard from outside there, something interest scattered out there, small light white snow. In my table there are two devices need to do something, Android ideapad a1 from lenovo, This pad was purchased for research in Agricutural informatics, field of agricultural engineering. why research in agricultural engineering using android for research? I will try to explain to you.
Implementation of Information and technology also improve in field of agriculture, not only engineering and science but also new technology including mobile and cloud computing. Briefly introduced by laboratory Bioproduction Engienering, Simple field monitoring system (FMS) for online data logger, monitor temperature, soil moisture content, co2, solar radiation and electrical conductivity (EC). Fms already exist and working almost 2 years with improvement modular, one of part needed to improve fms is actuating system.
Actuating system is a part of general agricultural monitoring system that handling actuator, based on data acquisition and decision. Actuating system commonly handled by operator or regular scheduling ( both mechanical switch and electrial switch). We consider cheap device which easy to program, update, maintain , and use. First of all we consider iOs for development mobile application for controlling and actuating system, after consider terms and policies we will use opensource software, Android for mobile application. There are several benefit of development Application using android:
- Opensource software
- Community support
- Online documentation and case studies
- Cheapest than others
The application will work as main controller and automatic pump triggering in order to intelligent control of irrigation, that’s the relation between android and agricultural engineering.
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