Robots for Microfarms (ROMI) - Farmers Dashboard Video - D3.4

<p><strong>The following video shows the functionalities and usage of the&nbsp;Farmer&rsquo;s Dashboard&nbsp;developed within the Robots for Microfarms (ROMI) project funded by EU Grant&nbsp;773875</strong></p> <p><em>You can also watch it&nbsp;on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT55o32SE30a8pTu-chatTA/videos">Youtube</a></em></p> <p><strong>Video content:</strong></p> <ul> <li><em>Farmers Dashboard Summary.mp4</em></li> <li><em>Tell me more - a deeper dive into the Cablebot.mp4</em></li> <li><em>Tell me more - a deeper dive into the Farmers Dashboard.mp4</em></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Videos summary:</strong></p> <p><br> The Farmer&rsquo;s Dashboard is a farming tool that provides daily automated insights about your crops. It helps with mapping of crop bed, the location and identification of individual plants, and the extraction of their growth curves from the collected data.&nbsp;</p> <p>The dashboard benefits polycrop farmers and researchers. It opens-up technology and practices common to industrial-scale agriculture, making them accessible and useful to ecological and sustainable farmers.</p> <p>It relies on an automated system for data acquisition, a set of tools for image analytics, and finally, an online platform for spatial management and data visualization. The data can be provided by different types of devices: a cablebot, a drone or a rover according to the configuration of each farm.&nbsp;</p> <p>The Cable Bot can be fixed above a crop bed using a tensioned cable, which is especially easy using a polytunnel. We can use the manual remote to correctly position the camera, to capture all of the crops. Once set up, the Cable Bot will move multiple times a day across the crop bed, taking high definition images and sending them to a ROMI server. The images are assembled into a unique portrait of your crop bed. After plants are detected, a catalogue of individual plants is created. By comparing them with historical data, we can obtain plant growth curves. All of the information is then combined into a weed map which is made available on the Farmers Dashboard website.</p> <p>Because of the legal restrictions on the use of drones and because of the rapid evolution of the drone market, the ROMI project has decided to direct its effort to a hardware solution that complements the existing tools: the Cablebot. Multiple iterations were needed to achieve a powerful yet robust and low-cost solution. The current system is a fully automated imaging device able to collect data on a high variety of crops.&nbsp;</p> <p>The first iteration of the software focuses on the mapping of crop rows, the location and identification of individual plants, and the extraction of their growth curves from the collected data.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>The rover is available as an Open Source project. All of the source code and plans are freely available. That allows us to improve the design over time using input from farmers and engineers. That is also why we made the design modular using components that can be found &ldquo;off-the-shelf&rdquo; or that can be produced using 3D printers and laser cutters. People with development skills can also contribute. Our software is available online on Github. That makes the Romi Farmers Dashboard an excellent platform to experiment with innovative tools for farming.</p>