2020.11.27Mineno Laboratory research was introduced in the Nov. 2020 issue of "Highlighting JAPAN".
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Mineno Laboratory's research was introduced in the November 2020 issue of "Highlighting JAPAN", an online magazine of "Japanese Government Public Relations Online", an English website operated by the Public Relations Office of the Government of Japan.
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Highlighting JAPAN
#150 November 2020 THE JAPANESE AND RICE
"AI Assists Cultivation of Sweet Tomatoes"
https://www.gov-online.go.jp/eng/publicity/book/hlj/html/202011/202011_10_en.html
In stress cultivation, which produces smaller but sweet tomatoes when water is reduced and "water stress" is applied, the tomatoes themselves are put under too much stress, so if the water is squeezed too much, their growth may be delayed or in extreme cases, they may die. At the Mineno Laboratory, we are working on researching whether we can somehow pass on to future generations the skills of farmers, which are difficult to do without a certain number of years of experience, using IoT and AI (artificial intelligence).
We have researched and developed an IoT system for agriculture using a wireless sensor network to allow the AI to learn the wilting of leaves as seen by skilled farmers in stressed cultivation. The system is designed to collect photos of areas that seem to wilt easily taken periodically by a fixed-point camera, as well as environmental data such as temperature, humidity, and brightness, so that the AI can capture the collected data as numerical data. We were the first in the world to research and develop technology that can not only accurately estimate the water stress state of a plant, but also automatically irrigate at the right timing for a plant.
If the know-how of skilled farmers, which has been acquired through experience and intuition, can be easily handed down through IoT and AI technology, it may help to address issues such as unstable year-round production due to weather fluctuations and lack of workers due to harsh labor conditions.
Shizuoka University, Faculty of Informatics, Mineno Laboratory, Overview of the Intelligent Agriculture Support System
https://www.minelab.jp/?page_id=6208
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MINENO laboratory,
College of Informatics, Academic Institute, National Universaly Corporation Shizuoka University,
3-5-1 Johoku, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 432-8011, Japan
(Concurrently) Faculty of Informatics, Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology,
Graduate School of Science and Technology, Research Institute of Green Science and Technology