Agricultural work activity tracking system

Abstract

The present invention relates to an agricultural work activity tracking system comprising: an information processing unit for extracting, from a crop cultivation information DB, a standard work schedule for a cultivated crop identified from user input information, and generating user-personalized work indication information in which the extracted standard work schedule reflects at least one of cultivation environment information and agricultural work activity tracking information; and a system operation unit for providing the user-personalized work indication information via a crop cultivation application program for farmers used by a corresponding user, and when the agricultural work activity tracking information corresponding to the user-personalized work indication information is received or collected, causing the agricultural work activity tracking information to be recorded in an agricultural activity information DB via the crop cultivation application program for farmers used by the user.

Description

Farm Activity Tracking System

[0001] The present invention relates to crop cultivation technology, and more specifically, to a system for tracking agricultural work activities of farmers.

[0002] The crop cultivation process requires consideration of not only natural environmental factors like temperature, humidity, and sunlight, but also diverse factors such as fertilizer availability and pesticide application. Recent advances in agricultural technology have led to the rapid adoption of smart farm technology capable of controlling temperature, humidity, and sunlight. Furthermore, advances in automation have led to the commercialization of technologies that automatically apply pesticides and fertilizers, and even automated crop harvesting using robots is becoming widespread.

[0003] Despite these automated facilities, farmers still need to assess and consider the environment at every stage of crop cultivation. This means that, regardless of agricultural automation, the success of crop cultivation depends on the individual capabilities of the farmer.

[0004] Additionally, even experienced farmers can ruin crops if they make decisions without specific information or without considering certain factors.

[0005] Recently, the number of people returning to farming has rapidly increased, and with warming temperatures, unprecedentedly long rainy seasons and severe winter temperatures have caused serious crop damage. Furthermore, the agricultural environment is undergoing rapid changes, such as the introduction of the Pesticide Tolerance Standards (PLS) system in 2019. Therefore, not only returning farmers with little farming experience and therefore limited cultivation knowledge, but also farmers with extensive cultivation knowledge and experience face significant challenges in accurately selecting suitable crops and cultivation environments, identifying and responding to pests during cultivation, and frequently acquiring cultivation know-how for certain crops only after repeated failures. Therefore, the need for efficient sharing of agricultural knowledge suited to the information age is growing.

[0006] The present invention provides a system for tracking agricultural work activities of farmers according to an agricultural work schedule tailored to the crop growth environment, agricultural work environment, and agricultural worker capabilities.

[0007] According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system for tracking agricultural work activities, comprising: an information receiving unit that receives user input information related to crop cultivation by being linked with a crop cultivation application program (App) for farmers installed in a communication terminal used by a user; an information collecting unit that collects cultivation environment information and agricultural work activity tracking information from the crop cultivation application program for farmers as basic information used to generate a work instruction schedule for crop cultivation; a crop cultivation information database (DB) that stores a standard work schedule for each cultivated crop; a farming activity information DB that records agricultural work activities related to cultivated crops for each farmer; an information processing unit that extracts a standard work schedule for cultivated crops identified from the user input information from the crop cultivation information DB and generates user-customized work instruction information that reflects at least one of the cultivation environment information and the agricultural work activity tracking information in the extracted standard work schedule; A system for tracking agricultural work activities is provided, including a system operating unit that provides the user-customized work instruction information through the agricultural crop cultivation application program used by the user, and, when agricultural work activity tracking information corresponding to the user-customized work instruction information is received or collected, records the agricultural work activity tracking information in the agricultural activity information DB through the agricultural crop cultivation application program used by the user.

[0008] According to the agricultural work activity tracking system according to an embodiment of the present invention, there is an effect of being able to track activities regarding whether agricultural work activities are being carried out according to an agricultural work schedule created according to the crop growth environment, agricultural work environment, and farmer capabilities.

[0009] In addition, the agricultural work activity tracking system according to an embodiment of the present invention has the advantage of effectively assisting the agricultural work activities of farmers by benchmarking and guiding the agricultural work methods and schedules of other farmers who have achieved excellent harvest results under the same environmental conditions, such as the same climate and soil, for the same crops.

[0010] Figure 1 is a general system configuration diagram of a farming platform system capable of tracking farming activities according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[0011] FIG. 2 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the farming platform system of FIG. 1.

[0012] Figures 3 to 5 are examples of app screens of crop cultivation applications installed on user terminals used by farmers, and are drawings showing a farm information input screen, a work instruction screen, and a farming log screen, respectively.

[0013] The present invention is susceptible to various modifications and embodiments. Specific embodiments are illustrated in the drawings and described in detail in the detailed description. However, this is not intended to limit the present invention to specific embodiments, but rather to encompass all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and technical scope of the present invention.

[0014] In describing the present invention, detailed descriptions of related known technologies will be omitted if they are deemed to unnecessarily obscure the gist of the present invention. Furthermore, numbers (e.g., "first," "second," etc.) used throughout the description of this specification are merely identifiers used to distinguish one component from another.

[0015] In addition, when a component is referred to as being "connected" or "connected" with another component throughout the specification, it should be understood that the component may be directly connected or directly connected to the other component, but may also be connected or connected via another component in between, unless specifically stated otherwise. In addition, when a part is said to "include" a component throughout the specification, this does not mean that other components are excluded, but rather that other components may be included, unless specifically stated otherwise. In addition, terms such as "part" and "module" described in the specification mean a unit that processes at least one function or operation, and this means that it can be implemented with one or more hardware or software, or a combination of hardware and software.

[0016]

[0017] Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the attached drawings.

[0018] Here, FIG. 1 is a general system configuration diagram of a farming platform system capable of tracking farming activities according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the farming platform system of FIG. 1, and FIGS. 3 to 5 are diagrams illustrating app screens of crop cultivation applications installed on user terminals used by farmers, respectively, showing a farm information input screen, a work instruction screen, and a farming log screen.

[0019] Referring to FIG. 1, the farming platform system (100) according to an embodiment of the present invention can collect or receive various data related to crop cultivation (i.e., temperature, humidity, wind volume, precipitation, snowfall, fine dust, soil, etc.), crop pest-related big data, and various farming activity-related information and crop cultivation-related information input by users through communication linkage with user terminals (see 10-1, 10-2, ... 10-N of FIG. 1, hereinafter collectively referred to as reference numeral 10) used by users who are crop growers or farmers; and external information systems (see 200-1, 200-2, ... 200-N of FIG. 1, hereinafter collectively referred to as reference numeral 200) (e.g., a Korea Meteorological Administration server, a soil information management server, a Statistics Korea server, a Rural Development Administration server, etc., or various environmental sensing devices and integrated control devices installed in a crop cultivation area, etc.).

[0020] In addition, in the present invention, the farming platform system (100) can be implemented by including an information receiving unit (110), an information collecting unit (120), an information processing unit (130), a system operating unit (140), a farmer member database (151), a crop cultivation information database (153), a farming activity information database (155), a statistics database (157), and a pest and disease database (159), as illustrated in FIG. 2.

[0021] The information receiving unit (110) is linked with the crop cultivation application program (App) for farmers installed on the communication terminal used by the user, and receives user input information related to crop cultivation (see the information input screen of FIG. 3, etc.).

[0022] The information collection unit (120) collects cultivation environment information and farming activity tracking information from the crop cultivation application program for farmers as basic information used to create a work instruction schedule for crop cultivation.

[0023] The information processing unit (130) extracts a standard work schedule for cultivated crops identified from the user input information from the crop cultivation information DB (153), and generates user-customized work instruction information that reflects at least one of the cultivation environment information and the agricultural work activity tracking information in the extracted standard work schedule. At this time, the crop cultivation information DB (153) stores a standard work schedule pre-designated for each cultivated crop.

[0024] The system operation unit (140) provides the user-customized work instruction information through the crop cultivation application program for farmers used by the user, and when agricultural work activity tracking information corresponding to the user-customized work instruction information is received or collected, the agricultural work activity tracking information is recorded in the agricultural activity information DB (155) through the crop cultivation application program for farmers used by the user. The system operation unit (140) can automatically create (generate) a farming log regarding the agricultural work activities of the user based on the information recorded by the agricultural activity information DB (155).

[0025]

[0026] Hereinafter, each embodiment of the present invention will be described in more detail as follows.

[0027] In an embodiment of the present invention, the crop cultivation application program for farmers can obtain location information based on GPS of a communication terminal used by the user from the start time of the farming work according to the farming work schedule included in the user-customized work instruction information, and generate the farming work activity tracking information based on the obtained location information and time information of the communication terminal.

[0028] At this time, when the agricultural work activity tracking information is received from the crop cultivation application program for farmers to the information collection unit, the system operation unit (140) can map the agricultural work activity tracking information to the work time information of individual tasks in the agricultural work schedule included in the user-customized work instruction information of the user, thereby allowing the agricultural work activity tracking information for each individual task to be stored in the agricultural activity information DB.

[0029] In addition, when the agricultural work activity tracking information corresponding to the user-customized work instruction information is received or collected from the crop cultivation application program for farmers, the system operation unit (140) can verify whether the location where the agricultural work activity tracking information is received or collected matches the corresponding crop cultivation area within a certain distance range. If this verification is performed normally, the system operation unit (140) can record the agricultural work activity tracking information in the agricultural activity information DB (155), and calculate the agricultural work activity fidelity of the corresponding user based on the agricultural work schedule performance completion rate depending on whether the recorded agricultural work activity tracking information matches the agricultural work schedule included in the user-customized work instruction information.

[0030]

[0031] In an embodiment of the present invention, the information processing unit (130) can calculate the maximum allowable work grace period interval that must be performed between individual tasks having a chronological order of precedence on the standard work schedule for cultivated crops, and extract, from the crop cultivation information DB (153), reference weather information that has been pre-designated as suitable for performing each of the individual tasks on the standard work schedule.

[0032] Accordingly, the information processing unit (130), when considering the expected crop cultivation schedule confirmed from the user input information, determines the work date and time so that the individual tasks on the standard work schedule are performed at a schedule that matches each of the reference weather information within the calculated work grace period interval based on the weather forecast information collected from the information collection unit as the cultivation environment information, and causes the individual tasks to be generated as the user-customized work instruction information according to the determined work date and time.

[0033] In another embodiment of the present invention, the information processing unit (130) can extract the individual work-specific farming tracking information of another farmer who has the number of years of farming activity of the user and the number of years of farming activity within a pre-specified error range and has a history of cultivating the same crops as the user, based on the farmer member DB (151) and the farming activity information DB (153), and who has been selected as an excellent farmer based on the farming activity fidelity.

[0034] Accordingly, the information processing unit (130) determines the work date and time of the user so that the work schedule that must be performed between individual tasks having a chronological order and a precedence relationship on the standard work schedule for cultivated crops is set to be the same as the work schedule according to the extracted individual work-specific agricultural work tracking information of another farmer, and can cause the individual tasks to be generated as the user-tailored work instruction information according to the determined work date and time.

[0035]

[0036] In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the farming platform system (100) may further include a statistical DB that records work time information per cultivation area for each individual task as statistical work amount information for each agricultural machinery equipment for crop cultivation work, each professional agricultural worker's work experience, and each agricultural assistant personnel.

[0037] Accordingly, the information processing unit (130) extracts each statistical workload information from the statistical DB based on the agricultural machinery equipment possession status information confirmed from the user input information as the cultivation environment information, the farmer work experience information of the user, and additional available agricultural assistant manpower information, and can calculate the number of work days or work hours information required to perform each of the individual tasks on the standard work schedule using the extracted statistical workload information and crop cultivation area information.

[0038] At this time, the information processing unit (130), in generating the user-customized work instruction information, generates recommended work instruction information that includes information on recommended agricultural machinery equipment and additional agricultural assistance personnel for performing individual tasks on the standard schedule in accordance with the expected crop cultivation schedule confirmed from the user input information, and can reflect information on the number of work days or work hours according to the generated recommended work instruction information in the schedule plan.

[0039]

[0040] Although the present invention has been described above with reference to embodiments thereof, it will be readily understood by those skilled in the art that various modifications and changes may be made to the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention as set forth in the claims below.

Claims

1. As a tracking system for agricultural work activities, An information receiving unit that receives user input information related to crop cultivation by linking with an agricultural crop cultivation application program (App) installed on a communication terminal used by the user; An information collection unit that collects cultivation environment information and farm work activity tracking information from the crop cultivation application program for farmers as base information used to create a work instruction schedule for crop cultivation; Crop cultivation information database that stores standard work schedules for each crop; Farming activity information DB that records farming activities related to crops by farmer; An information processing unit that extracts a standard work schedule for a crop to be cultivated, which is confirmed from the user input information, from the crop cultivation information DB, and generates user-customized work instruction information that reflects at least one of the cultivation environment information and the agricultural work activity tracking information in the extracted standard work schedule; A system operation unit that provides the user-tailored work instruction information through the crop cultivation application program for farmers used by the user, and, when agricultural work activity tracking information corresponding to the user-tailored work instruction information is received or collected, causes the agricultural work activity tracking information to be recorded in the agricultural activity information DB through the crop cultivation application program for farmers used by the user; A farming activity tracking system including:

2. In paragraph 1, The above agricultural crop cultivation application program acquires location information based on the GPS of the communication terminal used by the user from the start time of the agricultural work according to the agricultural work schedule included in the user-customized work instruction information, and generates the agricultural work activity tracking information based on the acquired location information and the time information of the communication terminal. The above system operation department, A farming activity tracking system characterized in that, when the farming activity tracking information is received from the crop cultivation application program for farmers to the information collection unit, the farming activity tracking information is mapped to the work time information of individual tasks in the farming work schedule included in the user-customized work instruction information of the corresponding user, thereby storing the farming activity tracking information for each individual task in the farming activity information DB.

3. In paragraph 1, The above system operation department, When agricultural work activity tracking information corresponding to the user-customized work instruction information is received or collected from the crop cultivation application program for agricultural workers, it is verified whether the location where the agricultural work activity tracking information is received or collected matches within a certain distance range with the crop cultivation area, A farming activity tracking system that records the corresponding farming activity tracking information in a farming activity information DB when verification is performed normally, and calculates the farming activity fidelity of the corresponding user based on the farming activity schedule performance completion rate based on whether the recorded farming activity tracking information matches the farming activity schedule included in the user-customized work instruction information.

4. In paragraph 3, The above information processing unit, Calculating the maximum allowable work grace period interval that must be performed between individual tasks having a chronological order of precedence on the above standard work schedule for cultivated crops, and extracting from the crop cultivation information DB the reference weather information that is designated in advance as suitable for performing each of the individual tasks on the above standard work schedule. A system for tracking agricultural work activities, wherein, when considering the expected crop cultivation schedule confirmed from the user input information, the work date and time are determined so that the individual tasks on the standard work schedule are performed at a schedule that matches each of the reference weather information within the calculated work grace period interval based on the weather forecast information collected from the information collection unit as the cultivation environment information, and the individual tasks are each generated as the user-customized work instruction information according to the determined work date and time.

5. In paragraph 3, The above information processing unit, Based on the above-mentioned farmer member DB and the above-mentioned farming activity information DB, the farming work tracking information for each individual task of another farmer who has the number of years of farming activity of the above-mentioned user and the number of years of farming activity within a pre-specified error range and has a history of cultivating the same crops as the above-mentioned user is extracted, and is selected as an excellent farmer based on the fidelity of the above-mentioned farming work. A farm work activity tracking system that determines the work date and time of a user so that the work schedule for individual tasks having a chronological order and a contingency relationship in the above standard work schedule for cultivated crops is set to be the same as the work schedule according to the farm work tracking information for each individual task of the extracted other farmer, and generates the individual tasks as the user-tailored work instruction information according to the determined work date and time.

6. In paragraph 3, In addition, it includes a statistical DB that records information on working hours per cultivation area for each individual task, as statistical work amount information by agricultural machinery equipment for crop cultivation work, by professional agricultural worker experience, and by agricultural assistant personnel. The above information processing unit, Based on the agricultural machinery equipment possession status information confirmed from the user input information as the cultivation environment information, the farmer work experience information of the user, and additional available agricultural assistant personnel information, each statistical workload information is extracted from the statistical DB, and using each extracted statistical workload information and crop cultivation area information, the number of work days or work hours information required to perform each of the individual tasks on the standard work schedule is calculated. In generating the above user-customized work instruction information, An agricultural work activity tracking system characterized in that it generates recommended work instruction information including information on recommended agricultural machinery equipment and additional agricultural assistant personnel for performing individual tasks on the standard schedule according to the expected crop cultivation schedule confirmed from the user input information, and reflects information on the number of work days or work hours according to the generated recommended work instruction information in the schedule plan.

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