Intel and Abbaco worked together on water gate automation control for rice fields in Malaysia. With the Intel IOT Gateway, Abbaco is able to integrate devices like water level sensors, penstock actuator controls, solar power system, temperature and humidity monitoring sensors as 3G connections. Control of the water gates is now automated, requiring minimal intervention.
One hears so much of the IoT in terms of manufacturing and services but consider its impact on agriculture as well. And in one instance, the combination of IoT and BDA is already creating waves in Malaysian agriculture through a pilot project with a partnership between Abbaco Controls, Intel and the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA).
Employing a method of targeted irrigation has helped increase rice yields – producing three harvests a year instead of the typical twice yearly harvest. If every rice field has this solution, water irrigation can be properly monitored to provide a near perfect irrigation system. This could potentially result in an additional 20% increase in overall rice production. Good bye rice imports !
The successful deployment of the water demand management system has transformed the lives of rice farmers and will eventually touch all of them. Notes a MOA official, “This is an innovative approach to provide accurate and real-time status of water flow – it also enables the MOA to drastically reduce lead-time to farmers’ requests, to minimize manual intervention – thereby increasing operational and farmer effciency.”
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