KDW-2024: Big Data in Agriculture: Analysis, Forecasting, Optimization
Today, as part of the Kazan Digital Week – 2024 forum, a round table "Big Data in Agriculture: Analysis, Forecasting, Optimization" was held. It was attended by representatives of organizations contributing to the digitalization of the agro-industrial complex of the Republic of Tatarstan.
The forum is a unique opportunity for dialogue between experts, government officials and business representatives, to facilitate the exchange of scientific and technical information, the consolidation of scientific and technological assets that can effectively solve the problems of import substitution and import advancement, ensure technological sovereignty and data sovereignty as the basis for Russia's leadership in international cooperation.
Ayrat Khusnutdinov, General Director of JSC "NEW BRAND", spoke on the topic: "Big Data technologies as a tool for the digitalization of agribusiness". In his report, he highlighted the main sources of Big Data in agriculture as methods for building high-precision predictive models. These include ground sensors, cartographic data, digital image libraries, satellite images, weather stations, drones, statistical data, GPS devices, multispectral imaging and historical data sets.
Head of the Engineering Integration Service of ER-Telecom Holding JSC Evgeny Norov spoke about professional weather stations for agriculture. To select the type of weather station, it is necessary to take into account the factors affecting the model and its characteristics: determine the tasks of collecting meteorological data, the type and number of controlled objects; take into account the distance of objects from each other, the geographical and topographic features of the area and specific control tasks.
Director of the branch of PJSC Rostelecom in the Republic of Tatarstan Pavel Gontsov in his speech spoke about agricultural monitoring systems. He highlighted the factors affecting crop yields: failure to use digital technologies by agricultural producers, weather conditions, irrational use of resources, diseases and pests. The capabilities of agricultural monitoring systems for solving problems include: measuring air and soil temperature and humidity; determining atmospheric pressure, wind speed and direction, precipitation time and amount; obtaining certificates for insurance claims.
Timur Khairullin, Head of the Automation Department at RIVC JSC, spoke on the topic: "Comprehensive automation of dairy production." In his report, he highlighted the main automation technologies and trends: resource accounting and planning, organizational events, storage and logistics, production and farms. He included the following capabilities of the group milk accounting system for animals: continuous weighing of milk during milking, storage and shipment; a system for remote monitoring, management and storage of archives obtained from scales installed on milk cooling tanks; API integration with other enterprise accounting systems; availability of tools for visualizing analytical data, displaying data in the form of mnemonic diagrams, graphs and tables; collecting data from connected scales and storing read data for 90 days.
Kazan Digital Week-2024 has become an effective platform for exchanging experience, establishing new partnerships and implementing projects that will accelerate the digitalization of the agro-industrial complex and take Russian agriculture to a new level.