healthy-crops-assistance-system---hecas

The HECAS project is a Web platform developed in Java programing language that will help farmers through a series of alerts and information about how to control and exterminate plagues. It will promote decreasing pesticide use, promoting environmental positive impacts. It is a collaborative network where users will be able to access information and statistics of affected regions, using maps and other graphic models to take appropriate preventing measures. The application will be openly available for farmers and organizations interested in being part of this framework. An algorithm capable of predicting future diseases and plagues by using a plethora of facts and reporting the results through automated notifications will be developed. Farmers and researchers will input data in the system through friendly user interphases, data will be obtained in real time by connections of external databases. Unmanned vehicles will be used to tour the fields to gather crops’ videos and pictures that will be used to determine favorable conditions for plagues and diseases to appear or propagate. We pretend to create an open tool that can be subjected to continuous updating processes that may collect and produce valuable information for global agricultural production analysis. We plan to use real time quantifying sensors that could be used to determine plague and disease-producing factors. These sensors could be used along with low-cost microcontrollers like Arduino Boards to self-regulate the data collection process. The java developing platform offers high performance levels, sturdiness and scalability (this is the main reason why we chose to use this technology). Raspberry Pi based web servers will be used; these are low-power consumption computers that save space due to their small size and are capable of executing high performance Java applications. This will allow us to reduce costs to a minimum while decreasing the project’s environmental footprint.

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