Hiki i nā ʻenehana hou ke kōkua i nā mea kanu mea kanu kūikawā e loaʻa hou aʻe mai kā lākou ʻohi ʻana, hōʻike nā mea noiʻi WSU ma ka pukana Malaki o "Computers and Electronics in Agriculture."
ʻO ka hapa nui o nā mea kanu mea kanu kūikawā e like me nā huaʻai, nā mea kanu a me nā hua lāʻau e uku i nā mea hōʻiliʻili ma ka bin a i ʻole ka piha piha. Akā ʻo ka hana ʻāpana ʻāpana hiki ke piha me ka pololei ʻole, me ka uku ʻana o kekahi mau mea kanu i nā ʻumi kaukani kālā.
Ma kā lākou pepa, "Pūnaehana ʻike hoʻokele ʻohi ʻana ma ke ao no nā mea kanu kūikawā i ʻohi ʻia e ka lima, "nā mea noiʻi me Kaleponi State University ma Bakersfield, ka WSU Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems, WSU School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, a me ka WSU Department of Horticulture i kahi ala kūpono e hilinaʻi ana i ka hōʻiliʻili ʻikepili akamai.
ʻO ka mea kākau alakaʻi ʻo Dr. Yiannis Ampatzidis, ka mea ʻepekema postdoctoral mua ma ka WSU Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center ma Prosser, i kēia manawa he kumu kōkua kumu o ka ʻenekinia ma Kaleponi State University, Bakersfield, ua hana pū me WSU horticulture professor Dr. Matt Whiting e hoʻomohala i ka Pūnaehana FairWeigh. Hoʻāʻo ʻia i loko o nā māla cherry, blueberry a me nā ʻāpala ma Wakinekona, hoʻohana ʻo FairWeigh i nā hōʻailona ID radio-frequency, nā modula GPS a me ka computing kapua e hoʻopaʻa a hoʻouka i ka ʻikepili i kēlā me kēia manawa e lawe mai ka mea ʻohi i kahi bākeke hua i kahi pahu hōʻiliʻili.
Ana ʻo FairWeigh i ke kaumaha o nā hua i ʻohi ʻia, a me ka manawa a me ka wahi o kēlā me kēia hāʻule hua, a laila hoʻouna i kēlā ʻikepili me ke kelepona ʻole i kahi kikowaena kamepiula. Hiki i nā mea kanu ke hoʻohana i kēlā ʻikepili no ka hoʻomaopopo ʻana i nā hua i ka manawa maoli, hoʻonui i ka pololei o kā lākou uku uku, a hoʻomaikaʻi i ka palekana o ka mea ʻohi a me ka maikaʻi o nā hua, i ka hopena e ʻoi aku ka maikaʻi o kā lākou ʻohi.
"Me ka hiki ke hoʻopili i kēia lā, hiki ke hōʻiliʻili ʻia ka ʻikepili a nānā pono ʻia," i ʻōlelo ai ʻo Kauka Li Tan, he mea kākau kumu a me ke kaukaʻi ʻepekema kamepiula WSU nāna i hana a hoʻopaʻa i ka polokalamu e loiloi i ka ʻikepili FairWeigh. "E kōkua ana i ke kūkulu ʻana i kahi hana mahiʻai i hoʻoikaika ʻia i ka ʻikepili, e hoʻomaikaʻi ana i ka pono ma o ka ʻepekema data."
E heluhelu i ka pepa maanei.
- Seth Truscott, Ke Kulanui Mokuʻāina ʻo Wakinekona