How the FarmBot Network Brings Smarter Precision to Agriculture

1. How the FarmBot Network
Brings Smarter Precision
to Agriculture
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2. The Case: From Field to Fork
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 Challenge
Agriculture as one of the largest sectors in the global economy is facing
challenges: Climate change, population growth (predicted 9.8 billion people
on earth by 2050), and food insecurity. To compete in an increasingly
competitive and volatile market, the farming industry needs to shake up
the way it operates – and disruptive technologies hold the key.
 Outcome
The FarmBot Network shows how innovative technology and forward thinking could be the answer to
sustainability in a rapidly expanding population. itelligence is a convinced contributor to the idea of the
open source FarmBot by farmbot.io. As a global system integrator for agricultural businesses with various
robotics and sensor suppliers, itelligence has been working closely together with FarmBot in recent times.
 Solution
To ensure a successful harvest, farmers need to be able to establish the ideal conditions for crop health
and be able to detect any potential threat of pests or disease before it spreads. Technologies have become
available to accelerate soil testing before planting, but also monitor plant nutrition levels and even
recognize plant diseases once the crop has grown. Although some precision farming technologies are not
new, such as GPS and remote sensing technologies, they are being taken to a much more complex and
intelligent level with the use of artificial intelligence (AI).

3. Smarter Precision with IT in Agriculture
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 Robotics is already making weed protection and detection much
easier. Autonomous vehicles are programmed to visually recognize
certain plants and spray them individually with a fungicide or
herbicide. The level of accuracy that AI and smart robotics offer
to farming will limit chemicals used and help create a cleaner
agricultural sector.
 Autonomous vehicles and drones can be equipped with cameras
and sensors to gather data which is then uploaded into agricultural
software. This quickly produces an overview of a crop for the user,
or farmer, to see existing health and identify potential problems.
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 With the help of the FarmBot scenario smart farming can be
brought to cities. FarmBot brings value proposition for urban
farming, e.g. less destruction of nature, more natural awareness,
less waste production and less transportation costs as well as an
overall healthier city life.

4. How FarmBot is connected with SAP Leonardo and the SAP Cloud Platform
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 As FarmBot is open source, itelligence wanted to demonstrate how these bots could be easily
connected with the Internet of Things (IoT) and enhanced with cloud technology and machine
learning.
 Connecting the FarmBot to SAP Leonardo and the SAP Cloud portfolio provided much
greater capabilities. Smart infrastructures and digital imaging provide a game-like interface
where users are able to see their plot live, gain an overview of plant status, control the bot
remotely, and keep track of activities – all from a laptop or mobile device.
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 FarmBot enables precise sowing, watering, and fertilizing
according to each exact plant. This allows users to grow a
diverse crop which encourages biodiversity and a much
higher resilience to pests and disease. Previously, such
crops would be very labor intensive, but with automation
and AI technology that detects and eliminates weeds,
diverse crops require much less work.

5. The FarmBot Network
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6. The FarmBot Network Architecture
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 Support of end-to-end logistic process
 Incorporate finance and back office via digital core
 Using different sensor data to optimize the relevant
agriculture processes

7. Sustainable Farming Is Robots’ Play
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Check Humidity
Seed
Watering
Take Picture
Use Weeder
FarmBot Digital TwinSelect:
Image Recognition

8. The Connected Field: Intelligent 360° Perspective on Field Data
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Better insights into 360° field data based on
sensors and IoT Technology
Farmers can access recommendation on field
performance and growing optimizations
Subscription bases digital Business Models
Business Benefits
Field registration app for Farmers and Product Managers
(derived from Farmbot Network) gathering IoT Sensing data
View field from Product Manager and Farmers
perspective across multiple fields
Field observations, create/change factsheet crops
and contract overview
Make recommendations for field optimization
and yield efficiency

9. Our Mission
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From Field to Fork…
a game changer in the world of agriculture
Safe, transparent and sustainable Digital Supply Chain
We believe in
Sustainability
and we want to extend
existing Business Models.
We develop
New Sustainable
Business Models.
Our sustainable Smart
Agriculture Platform
supports the latest Technology
Innovations.