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Lesson 5 ICT in Our Lives

ICT Meets Agriculture Agribots - Robot Farmers

ICT makes our lives simple and convenient. With An army of agribots, small autonomous robots

your smartphone, you can control the temperature designed for agricultural purposes, replaces human

and light of your home remotely. Using apps, you workers for a wide range of tasks. In general,

can find out where your bus is and when it will agribots tend crops, and each of them is highly

arrive. There are many other areas where ICT is specialized for weeding, fertilizing, harvesting, or

increasingly being used such as education and health. other farm work. Agribots have many benefits. For

Agriculture is no exception. Smart farming, which example, weeding robots can reduce the amount of

uses ICT in agriculture, includes things like drones, pollution caused by herbicide use. Fertilizing robots

robots, and big data. It is revolutionizing how can greatly reduce fertilizer costs by precisely
farmers do their jobs. Let's take a look at how
applying the correct amount of fertilizer in the
technology is changing life on the farm.
correct location. Using 3D imaging cameras,

harvesting robots can pick fruits and vegetables

Survey Drones - Eyes in the Sky without damaging them. Most importantly, agribots

Drones, small unmanned aerial vehicles, do many can operate 24/7, 365 days a year, solving the

jobs on a farm. One of these is to survey fields. shortage of farm labor while increasing the speed

Survey drones have GPS-controlled autopilots that let and accuracy of the work.

them take off, fly their routes, and land by

themselves. They are also equipped with many

cameras that take pictures of the fields from the air.

As the drones fly, they take pictures from different

angles and with different lenses. The images are then

analyzed to check for weed growth, ground moisture,

and soil conditions. Especially, when drones take

pictures with infrared lenses, which sense heat, they

can see if plants are healthy or not — because

healthy and unhealthy plants give off different

amounts of heat. This information helps farmers take

care of their crops better, thus increasing the quality

and quantity of production.


Smart Tractors - Self-driving Tractors Farming Data - Big Data in the Cloud

Although agribots are widely used in all the Smart farms take all the information from drones

important functions of farming, tractors are still and animal sensors and collect it in the cloud. The
needed for many large-scale and heavy-load tasks.
information can be analyzed and then presented to
Nowadays, they are evolving into self-driving vehicles.
farmers in a practical way. Based on the analyzed
Smart tractors are equipped with GPS controls. They
data, the farmers make informed decisions about an
also have optimized route planning software which

recommends the shortest route across the field. This animal, a field, or the entire farm. The farmers'

can minimize soil erosion by ensuring that all farm decisions are programmed into agribots and smart

tractors follow the same tracks. In addition, the tractors immediately. The more data there are about
self-driving tractors are accurate down to the
conditions on the farm, the more accurate the
millimeter. This means that they can plant seeds in
decisions will be, making the farm more efficient and
the correct place and harvest crops with no
profitable.
unnecessary movements. Besides, they can reduce
In a world with fewer food resources, but with more
crop damage and other losses caused by human

drivers going off track and into the crops. These people to feed, ICT-based agriculture can help

smart, self-driving vehicles can also operate during humankind address the challenges of the future. The

low visibility conditions such as rain, dust, fog, and amount of food produced can be maximized, while
darkness.
the impact on the environment can be minimized
Texting Cows - Monitoring Livestock with Sensors
through the efficient use of people, equipment, and
Sensors attached to cows check their temperature,
information. The future of agriculture depends on the
movement, behavior, and so on. When changes are

observed, the sensors send a message to the smart use of ICT.

farmer's phone or computer. For example, these

sensors are being used to detect if an animal's back

legs begin to lower, which is one of the first signs

of illness. They can also sense if a cow is pregnant.

This technology saves farmers dozens of hours a

week that would otherwise be spent closely

monitoring each cow. It also saves money for vets'

bills by allowing farmers to deal with cows‘ illnesses

before they get too serious. It goes without saying

that using sensors to monitor the health of individual

cows lets them live longer, healthier lives, and also

improves milk production.

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