This project is all about educating and training farmers for better strategies that provide enhanced harvest while ensuring minimal damage to the environment. It is a simulator, much like a game, for simulating the whole process in agriculture and customizable based on the location and type of the crop. The simulator will fetch data from the cloud, in which data including rain-level of the day, moisture and humidity, temperature and other important factors of the environment will be stored. These data will be collected from different locations, processed and stored in the cloud by FPGA. The key idea here is integration of knowledge of the environment for an extended period while only exposing past and present data at any point of time in the simulation.

FPGAs will be deployed in several locations for a long period to collect adequate data and transmit them to the cloud. To reduce the data traffic pre-processing will be done on the FPGA itself.

Actions

The simulator has actions such as preparing the soil, transplantation, applying pesticides and fertilization. One should take appropriate actions at the right time at the right quantity based on the information about data available for a successful result at the end.

Benefits

Farmers will better understand the relationship between the actions and yield. It includes when to perform an action such as preparing the soil, fertilizing the field and what quantity things should be applied.

React wisely to environmental factors that are always hard to predict and control.

Can be used as a platform to attract the younger generation towards farming.

Project Proposal

1. High-level project introduction and performance expectation

2. Block Diagram

3. Expected sustainability results, projected resource savings