Introduction

    As the world population grows and demand for crops grows, the global community is facing a severe food crisis today and finding new sources for agricultural production is one of the effective solutions to this crisis. Smart farming is one of the best ways to deal with the global food crisis and a new and affordable way of farming.

    Precision agriculture

    is an integrated agricultural management strategy where farmers can adjust input use and cultivation methods – including seed, fertilizer, pesticide, and water application, varietals selection, planting, tillage, harvesting – according to varying soil, crop and other field conditions.

    By making farming more connected and intelligent, precision agriculture helps reduce overall costs and improve the quality and quantity of products, the sustainability of agriculture and the experience for the consumer.

    Among the technologies available for present-day farmers there are

    • Sensing technologies, including soil scanning, water, light, humidity, temperature management;
    • Software applications — specialized software solutions that target specific farm types;
    • Communication technologies, such as cellular communication;
    • Positioning technologies, including GPS;
    • Hardware and software systems that enable IoT-based solutions, robotics and automation;
    • Satellitesand drones for gathering data around the clock for an entire field.
    • Data analytics, that underlies the decision making and prediction processes.

    Our Activity:

    Soil moisture is the water present in the space between the soil particles and influences the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of it. In the precision agriculture it is important to monitor soil water content, so the farmers could increase production value through improving quality and/or yield, water saving, maximise return on investment and minimise input losses.

    Also monitoring soil water content could play a prominent role in scientific and agronomic values like: insight, measurement, monitoring, management, verification. Using precision soil moisture device result in good irrigation management. Great Pyramid as a professional company provides versatile services like: consulting, installing, configuring and supporting our clients to aggregate data which are required for achieving the best experience of precision agriculture.

    Drone is applicable for agriculture, specifically in Precision Agriculture and farm management. Drones are revolutionary tools for gaining knowledge about the development of a crop and consequently for boosting yields as well as maximising production efficiency. Drones have the unique advantage to provide rapid response data of farmland with a high level of detail. The images that we capture can be used to create NDVI (normalized difference vegetation index) reporting. NDVI can show for example, how well the different parts of the land absorb water from irrigation, Detection of damaged area by pest and disease, Crop health/status, and where the different kind of weeds is growing in the crops.