Smart Farming Solutions

Introduction

Smart Farming is considered to be a difficult and complex discipline. ICP DAS approaches this subject from the aspect of production in order to summarize the needs of the various types of farm owners, helping farmers to improve their production efficiency by deploying environmental data sensors, controllers, and various functional I/O modules that include communication capabilities. At the same time, the efficiency of planting and breeding carried out by the farmers can be improved by connecting both new and old devices to the existing network so that data is uploaded to the back-end system for analysis, which helps those involved in traditional agriculture to migrate to the smart farming era.

Why ICP DAS

ICP DAS makes full use of all features related to industrial grade products, including immunity to sun exposure, stability, and low-energy consumption, which can help achieve the greatest benefits for both indoor and outdoor applications, as well as meeting the different professional needs of the farm owners when they are introduced to smart farming sites. Our existing application examples include poultry culturing (chickens, ducks, and pigs), fish farms, corn fields, mushrooms, orchids, and seed banks.

Applications

There are various needs related to outdoor agriculture, such as large-scale corn field planting, outdoor fish farms facing the demands of winter injury control, where stable and highly effective modules are required in order to help control the related equipment, as well as the various features that are associated with those modules, such as water resistance, and immunity to cold and sun exposure, so as to accommodate the outdoor environment.

Case Studies / PACTECH

Saving Water and Maintaining a Constant Temperature–ICP DAS Application Scenario for Smart Aquaculture

According to statistics published by the Taiwan Fisheries Agency, fishery production at freshwater fish farms in Taiwan reached 259,175 tons in 2018, with an output value of up to NT$31.7 billion, where the area covered by aquaculture activities was 33,594.27 hectares.However, extreme climate events have become increasingly frequent in recent years, including high temperatures...

The indoor agriculture industry can be roughly divided into two types, culturing and planting, each of which is inseparable from the control and measurement of various environmental factors, such as those in a cooling pad system that isolates the indoor and outdoor environment in the pig industry, automatic devices that intelligently separates the dry feed from the wet drinking water, or automatically controlled water sprinklers and fertilizer injectors that are required by the planting industry.

Case Studies / PACTECH

Create a Conducive Environment for Livestock & Poultry Farming with ICP DAS Environmental Monitoring Solution

ICP DAS WISE Intelligent IIoT Edge Controller Series transmits data detected or collected by various modules and devices to the control center’s AVEVA Edge HMI/ SCADA software for data visualization and management. WISE series also enables the activation or deactivation of field equipment and systems, including lighting, cooling pad systems, circulation fans, feeder motors...