Cloud-based FacileField Data Collection

Kazuki Kobayashi Shinshu Univ. (Japan)

Yasunori Saito Shinshu Univ. (Japan)

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Background

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ICT agriculture for high quality and increase of production Field monitoring systems for precision agriculture

Garcia-Sanchez11

Hirafuji 05

Lee 10

Riquelme 09

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Problem and Approach

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Small farmers’ worries Computer skills Initial costs Effort for maintenance

Approach:Very easy field data collectionwith commercial items and popular Web services

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Devices and Cloud Services

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DSLR Camera(EOS Kiss X4)

Wi-Fi SD Card(Eye-Fi)

Micro Controller(Arduino, Ether Shield)

Photo MOS Relay

Temperature Sensor

Photo Sharing(Flickr)

Text data Sharing(Twitter)

Job Scheduler(Google Apps Script)

Devices Cloud Services

Wi-Fi Converter

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Digital Single Lens Reflex Camera

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Canon EOS Kiss X4 with 18-55 mm lens ($540)

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SD Memory Card with Wi-Fi capabilities

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Eye-Fi Pro X2 8GB + Wi-Fi ($105)

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Micro Controller

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Arduino UNO ($29) Ethernet Shield($45)

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Wi-Fi Converter

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Planex MZK-RP150N ($29)

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Photo MOS Relay and Temperature Sensor

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Panasonic Electric WorksAQY214EH ($4)

National SemiconductorLM61BIZ ($1)

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Devices

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Housing

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Hand made housing

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Twitter

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Arduino automatically poststemperature informationto Twitter as text data

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Code for Twitter Posting and Camera Control

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Controls the camera focus and the shutter

Posts the temperature value to Twitter after converting a sensor value to temperature

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Flickr

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Eye-Fi sends photos to Flickr

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Google Apps Script

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Apps Script constantly watches Twitter (temperature)

and Flickr (photos)

Captures the temperature information and posts it to the photo on Flickr as a comment

The script finds the photo which is taken at the same time as the temperature

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Data Flow

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FlickrWi-Fi SD Card

(Eye-Fi)

Micro Controller(Arduino, Ether Shield)

Wi-Fi Converter

Google Apps Script

Twitter

temperature

updateinfo.

temperature

photo

control signal

updateinfo.

DSLR Camera(EOS Kiss X4)

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Flickr with Temperature data

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Graph Viewer -- Chrome Extension

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Graph Viewer -- Chrome Extension

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fromFlickr

fromTwitter

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Comment Manager -- Chrome Extension

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Comment Manager -- Chrome Extension

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Add to Flickr comment

From Flickr comment

It behaves asFlickr wrapper

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Conclusion

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Cloud service based field data collection method Cloud cooperation and

data integration Low initial cost Low maintenance effort

Develop a packaged device and provide it to small farmers