Using a photo of the farmer, an application will calibrate the amount of fertilizer needed and the harvest date for industry.
Soltel is bringing artificial intelligence to the field through the AppQalit project. The initiative, developed by the Soltel Group, is designing a pilot system to determine the agronomic parameters of tomatoes for processing. The goal is to create an application that farmers will install on their smartphones and, with just a photograph of the tomatoes in the field, will provide information on the amount of fertilizer needed and the recommended time until harvest.
It's the application of artificial intelligence to agriculture. Under the title "Technological Challenge for Improving Tomato Cultivation by Applying Artificial Intelligence Technology," Soltel has launched this innovative initiative in the area of tomato cultivation. For this, they are using the latest technologies, such as the development of applications for farmers and tools that use machine learning along with artificial intelligence algorithms to offer real-time production data, irrigation configuration suggestions, fertilizer use recommendations, and ultimately, to improve the decisions farmers make.
For the development of the project, Grupo Soltel, a leading firm in information technologies, uses all its technological and innovative knowledge to apply these technologies in the agricultural sector, within the line of development of systems that incorporate Precision Agriculture, aimed at improving agricultural production.
To achieve this, Soltel collaborates with various research organizations that enable the incorporation of new algorithms tailored to the tomato production sector, so that agronomic parameters for processing tomatoes can be provided based on images taken by farmers with their mobile phones.
APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
Currently, work has been done on specifying the needs at the mobile application level and on studying and testing the artificial intelligence algorithms, now beginning the phase of developing the applications and integrating the different algorithms.
AppQalit is an initiative co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and funds from the Ministry of Economy, Science and Digital Agenda of the Junta de Extremadura, with a final budget of 144,173.60 euros.
