Inspiration
During the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been a rising interest in farming, especially urban farming like hydroponics. We thought that how can we complement and improve on the existing products/technologies and support the farmers better as well as connecting the farmers together. Hence, we thought that we can leverage IoT to make farming easier and more convenient.
What it does
Our project automates crop health surveillance, provides users instructions and guides to care for plants, suggests users the farming supplies to get, compares purchasing price quotation from at least 3 different suppliers during sourcing process (Through partnering with TenderBoard), and implements a farm calculator plugin to calculate carbon emissions and carbon sequestration (Farm carbon calculator).
How we built it
We reused object detection code from one of our teammates and tailored it to suit this project.
Challenges we ran into
We wanted to solve many problems initially, but after feedback, we had to narrow our scope and focus from 3 SDGs to 2 SDGs. Another challenge was finding a product-market fit.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Within the span of one day, we were able to clarify a lot of things and ideas in our project.
What we learned
We understood the needs of farming customers better. We also learnt how to use the various business models from Pitchspot to analyse the market situation better. Furthermore, we get to improve on our project building skills by identifying problems and coming up with solutions as well as working together along with one another. We also improved our presentation skills by presenting to the various mentors and judges on Airmeet and applying their feedback to our project.
What's next for Pi-o-T
We plan to expand to commercial farming and use VR/AR to teach farming in schools, include a variety of crops, and include a reward system to retain customer loyalty.
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