Professor at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (ÇOMÜ), Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Structures and Irrigation. DR. The research team led by Ünal Kızıl continues its work on artificial intelligence-supported projects in the field of agriculture at the Digital Agriculture Laboratory.
Prof. DR. Kızıl and Prof. DR. Gökhan Çamoglu, Dr. The team consisting of faculty member Sefa Aksu, agricultural engineers Hakkı Fırat Altınbilek and Hakan Nar prepared the project entitled “Development of Irrigation Automation System Based on FAO Penman-Monteith Model for Drip Irrigation in Rice Fields” in 2022 to reduce water waste in Rice fields to prevent fields and ensure the correct use of water. .
The automation system developed and tested within the scope of the project carried out with the support of TÜBİTAK can exchange information with Android devices using sensors and circuits installed in the field and instantly processes a large number of data such as weather forecast, rainfall amount, humidity factor and provides appropriate irrigation .
A patent application is planned for this year for the automation system, which prevents excessive water consumption in rice production by guiding the created interface, saves up to 70 percent of water and is still being worked on.
Prof. DR. Kızıl said that in this period when the importance of artificial intelligence has increased, they are trying to provide Turkish farmers with intelligent and practical solutions with cost-effective systems by developing projects in the field of agriculture.
Stating that 75 percent of the available freshwater resources are used in agriculture, Kızıl stated that most of the water in agriculture is used for rice production.
Stating that they completed their master's and doctoral studies on the application of drip irrigation in paddy rice within the department within the framework of artificial intelligence, Kızıl stated that they began to use low-cost and low-cost sensor technologies in this context.
The cost of automation is less than 50,000 lira
Kızıl emphasized that they have done important work by combining the sensors they produced for rice irrigation at very affordable prices and combining them with artificial intelligence.
Kızıl explained that with this customization they also created Turkish applications and integrated them into mobile phones and continued his words as follows:
“We have developed these applications not only for mobile phones but also for tablets and computers. If we ensure that they are integrated more sensibly in the coming period, we can develop systems that are both cheaper in size and cost and more economical that almost any producer can achieve. Rice field irrigation automation project supported by TÜBİTAK. We developed it. We enabled the device to communicate with sensors via Bluetooth so that the data can be sent to Google Drive via the internet connection, collected and processed there, and used again for irrigation the next day. To do this, we have completed the process of sending the commands to the irrigation system via Bluetooth. All these processes have been completed. “It is an automatic system that turns on the water at the time you scheduled and turns it off after you give the calculated amount of water at the time you scheduled.
Kızıl explained that thanks to the system, water wastage in rice fields will be prevented and the correct use of water will be ensured.
Noting that the system can be intervened from any distance, Kızıl explained that a system has been created that allows the user to be informed of situations that may arise at any time via SMS.
Prof. DR. Kızıl shared that the cost of the automation that they tried in Thrace and achieved successful results was less than 50,000 lira.
Explaining that they aim to develop systems that cost 5,000 to 10,000 lira and are suitable for the farmer's budget and intended use, Kızıl said, “Of course, since rice cultivation is more of an industrial cultivation, it can be tolerated a little more , but apart from that.” From there we have other applications. For devices that cost a few thousand lira, it is a simple product that the manufacturer can use.” “We are a laboratory dedicated to finding solutions to manufacturers' problems with phone applications. With this in mind, we have developed this Paddy automation system. he said.
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