Cloud Computing for Agriculture

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Fujitsu Asia Pte Ltd20.October.2011

Cloud Computing in AgricultureProjects Overview

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Agenda

１ Fujitsu Global Capability

２ Introduction

３ Fujitsu Approach

４ Project Case Study

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1.FUJITSU GLOBALCAPABILITY


Third largest ICT service provider in the world

- #1 service provider in Japan

- 172,000 employees worldwide

- US$ 54.5 billion revenue in 2010

Fujitsu is a leading provider ofend-to-end ICT business solutions for

the global marketplace.



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Services

Consulting

System Integration

Outsourcing Services

Network Services

System Support Services

System Integration/ Network Implementation

ATM, POS systems Supports

Devices Solutions

Ubiquitous Solutions

Technology Solutions

System Platform

Servers (Mainframe, UNIX, IA, PC Servers)

Storages

Software（OS, Middleware）

Optical transmission system

Network Management System

（Mobile Telephone Base Station）

Logical LSI Devices (System LSI, ASICs, Micro Controller, FRAM-embedded logic）

System RAM Modules（Flash RAM、FCRAM）

Semiconductor Package

Others

Personal Computers

Mobile Phones

Mobile optical transmission module

Others

Services and Products

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Our Mission


Create New Market and Business through establishment ofintroducing new ICT application method and delivery system onindustries and business processes ~ especially in the areawhere ICT were not introduced customer. Generally in theindustry where dependency on human experience and skills.

For example: Agriculture, Home medical care, Pet medical care,These area are related to contribution to the happiness andsecurity of human life and the society.

Fujitsu Corporate Vision - FUJITSU Way -Through our constant pursuit of innovation, the FujitsuGroup aims to contribute to the creation of a networkedsociety that is rewarding and secure, bringing about aprosperous future that fulfills the dreams of peoplethroughout the world.

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AGRICULTURE CLOUD


2.Introduction Japanese Agriculture Issue- The most part of Japanese farmers run very small business

- Agriculture production power is decreasing

- Lacking new generation for Successor

Fujitsu finding

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Fujitsu finding –from experience and hearing -

What we have felt through actual farming experience and hearing

Lack of successors / manpower shortage•We need the person who can solve unfamiliar issues.

•We need to work efficiently for there are a lot of things to do.

The farming directly links to management.

•Difficult to direct cost management like the labor cost

•Managing many distributed farm lands takes a huge cost.

Tacit Knowledge of veteran

•In depth knowhow are required for each element of farming tasks.

•Necessity of a longtime experience to recognize soil state.

Applying IT system is hard

•Difficult to use Laptop and mobile phone while farming .•Even if there is data collection system, there is no effectivemechanism to use them.


Fujitsu want to contribute to the activation of agriculture by utilizing ICT.

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3. Fujitsu approachWhat Fujitsu wishes to contribute

- To provide gathered data to the farmers

Sensing (Atmosphere and Field conditions)

Sensing (Behavior of farmers)

Monitoring farming situation by digital camera on cell phone

Run PDCA cycle on the Field map




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What Fujitsu wishes to contribute

Improve management

Make “Agriculture” as sustainable and stable business

•To produce attractive farming products

•To Minimize cost

Develop human resources

To let individual to grow

To learn from experience (Need to learn systematically)

To become the business man (Understand whole flow from

seeding to selling) Improve production technique

To accumulate data without disturbing field worker

To visualize and accumulate personal know-how and skill

To recognize and share facts


To provide gathered data to the farmers

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*Field Server distributed by elab experience A part of the aerophotograph of the Geographical Survey Institute taking a picture is used.

500m

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Sensor＞ “Field Server” *

Temperature Quantity of solar radiation Temperature in soil

Moisturein soil

Camera

Sensing (Atmosphere and Field conditions)


＜ Another acquisition data＞ Wind velocity

Wind direction

Atmospheric pressure

Precipitation

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Sensing (Behavior of farmers)

Purpose : Record automatically for farmer activity

--- Certain grasp of each employee’s farming results Method : Track farmer position by GPS logger attached on each farmer.


GPS satelliteWaistCell Phone

(GPS logger)

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[時刻 1h/div] 0 1 2 3 4 5

その他

川横

彦ちゃん横

彦ちゃんL

彦ちゃん

旧工場

新工場

ハウス

単位は時間 ( 7:45-17:30の約10時間中)

vinyl house

Processing Plant

Material Store house

Field A-1

FielsdA-2

Field A-3

Field B

Others

GPS tracks

Analysis result from GPS tracks

cell phone tocollect farmer’s

position

vinyl house

Processing Plant

Material Store house

Field A-1

FielsdA-2

Field A-3

Field B

Others

Field manager

hour

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Monitoring farming situation by digital camera on cell phone


Share photos with veteran farmers and learner to transfer skillsand know-how of farming.

This is typical Quality Control Management based on KAIZEN.

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Improve Awareness (by photo and comment) and

check the alarmed farm fieldson the following screen.

Confirmation ofawareness

Field retrieval

Run PDCA cycle on the Field map


Confirmation ofuncompletedtasks.

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4. Project Case StudyManagement support (Rice Farmer)

Human resource development (Vegetable Farmer)

Production technique improvement (Mandarin Farmer)

Next challenge




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Projects Profile ( Shinpuku – Seika )


Category Contents

Farm company Shinpuku Seika in Miyazaki Pref.

(top open ground vegetable farmer)

Scale Sales: 1.5B-JPY (19M-USD)

Land: 100 ha

Employees: 52 people

Project objectives To be double field harvest turnover rate

To reduce wasted moving between fields. (50M JPY now)

Project start Oct.2008

Management issues - Improve management

- Develop human resources

- Improve production technique

Project themes - Sense・weather and field conditions

・behavior of farmers- Monitor farming situation

- Run PDCAcycle on the field map

Remarks As a result, productivity of cabbage was improved 1.5 times under

specific conditions.

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Resource simulation

Management support :Support planning of production in many farmers.

We need to come upwith the plan

distributing load inplanning.

Simulate when to plant on which fields-> Maximum the quality, harvest, and productivityField : Choose the field which is the best match with each cropsSchedule : Decide the timeline considering the expected farming load and best period forplant and harvest by calendar showing accumulated data.

Before

Have you concerned them before?

After

Planting simulation

Produce plan predicting the loadofresource(human/tool/seed, etc.)as planned to cultivate.

Planting kindDifficult to mow all thegrass down because ofthe capability ofresources

Planting field

Planting period

Display high-load period in red

Concern therice centercapability.

Busy for multipleharvesting period.

Plant Plan considering bothrepeated cultivation/croprotation/field and the cropfeatures.




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Projects Profile ( Fukuhara – Farm )


Category Content

Farm company Fukuhara Farm in Shiga Pref.

(rice farmer)

Scale Sales: 200 M-JPY (2.5-M USD)

Land: 150 ha

Employees: 20 people

Project objectives Develop Human Resources

Project start Mar.2009

Management issues - Improve management



Project themes - Sense

behavior of farmers

weather and field conditions

- Monitor farming situation

- Report & analyze daily task

- Support developing human resources

Remarks Using for progress management.

Visualizing productivity, costs, employees’ skills.

Improving operation management.

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Human resource development : “Develop together” but not “Develop as seniors”

病害写真

Previously,,,•It is difficult to communicate correctly orunderstand properly because it’s based onverbal communication from learners eye.•We may forget what they are taughtsoon, because they cannot learn repeatedly.

• Veteran and learners to share “Succeeded techniques” by sharing pictures•Learn repeatedly by accumulating success/fail examples•Share issues by recalling accumulated data

Before After

・Share information andteach techniques usingpicture・ Accumulate pictures and

comments

Picture andLocation

Field watch and search the result

I cannot understand just by verbal

explanation.

I am not sure

whether heunderstood. ???

Don’t you have this experience?




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Projects Profile ( Sowa Kajuen )


Category Content

Farm company Sowa Kajuen in Wakayama Pref.

(top brand mandarin farmer)

Scale - Sales: 400 M-JPY (5 M-USD)

- Land: 600 ha

- Employees: 34 people

- Tree: 5,000 trees

Project objectives Increase “AJIICHI” production rate. (25% -> 70%)

Project start Nov.2010

Management issues - Establish regional brand “AJIICHI”



- All trees management for high-quality mandarin orange makingProject themes - Analyze f ield & weather sensed data

- Monitor farming situation by each tree

- Compare and analyze growth situation with the past experimental

data

Remarks ・Considering to predict blooming and fruiting.

・The decision process of farming task priority is changed.

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Production technique improvement :Support to produce safe/high-quality vegetables without field mistakes

In the past,• Vegetable could not sell to the marketdue to the mistake on usingagrichemical.

• Redundant and missing tasks oftenhappened by different individuals.

• Necessary to go back to office often to

check the data.

•Find the possibility to use agrichemical when planning by the actual case and agrichemical DB.•Increase production by recommending the proper farming information from the history DB andlimitation DB.• All the required office work can be checked and accessed from the farm field. Reduce time foroffice work.

Before After

Refer farming history for each field

圃場履歴

作業履歴

Prevention human error Reduction risk

Isn’t it twice？

Need to go backto office tocheck ？

Was it ok to use thisagrichemical on this farm fieldagain？

I think we already used 3 times?

Don’t you have this experience?



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Next challenge

Collaboration with production history and GAPoperation support

Consolidating function

Strengthen mobile function collaboration

Referring the past activity record


Farmer can utilize the various data accumulated by agriculturaltask for growing their own business.

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