At the conclusion of the 2011 Egypt WaterHackathon, software developers and water specialists presented their innovative ICT-based solutions to real-world problems of water access and sanitation. This presentation highlights one of these solutions.

1. Abou Erdaan in
the Cloud!
Crop planning, monitoring, and irrigation
optimization system.

2. Revolutionizing the farmer !
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3. Presentation Parts
• 1- Mobile reporting system (Farm Frites)
• 2- Cloud based farming
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4. Initial Problem Statement
Enabling collection of manual (visual) field crop data through
mobile devices and aggregating them on a central server
and integration with agricultural expert system
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5. Mobile Reporting
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6. Mobile Reporting - Location
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7. Mobile Reporting - Geotagging
• Automatic Field Identification
• Automatic Crop Identification
• Location Agricultural History
• Irrigation
• Pests
• Fertilization
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8. Mobile Reporting –
Customizable Forms
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9. Mobile Reporting – Take a photo
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10. Reporting
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11. Reporting - Map
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12. x
common
Revolutionizing the farmer !
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13. Critical Success Factors
Affordability
Practicality
Benefit
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14. Multitiered Service
Pivot Control Integration
Intelligent Decision Support
Weather Information
Remote Sensing
• Soil moisture
• Rain levels
Mobile Field Reporting System
• On the field reporting of visual observations
• Geo-tagged reports
Agricultural Information Repository
• Crop Planning
• Crop Irrigation
• Crop Fertilization
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15. Multitiered Service
Irrigation System Integration & Control
Intelligent Decision Support
Weather Information
Remote Sensing
• Soil moisture
• Rain levels
Mobile Field Reporting System
• On the field reporting of visual observations
• Geo-tagged reports
Agricultural Information Repository
• Crop Planning
• Crop Irrigation
• Crop Fertilization
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16. Farm Cloud
Farmer 1 Farmer 2 Farmer 3 Farmer 4
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17. Why Cloud ??
• Hosted Service
• No capital investment by farmer
– No Servers
– No Software
– No Maintenance
– No Data backups
– No Infrastructure
• Infrastructure only available to very large organizations
– Access to reliable information
– Access to latest technology
– Affordability
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Large CAPEX Small Opex
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18. Cloud Sensors
• Completely Serverless
• Conntected directly to cloud
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19. Affordable
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20. Cloud Model
• Agriculture As A Service AAAS
• Software As A Service
• Platform As A Service
• Infrastructure As A Service
SAAS
PAAS
IAAS
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21. Questions
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