Sony and IBM showing AI based agriculture demo at Maker Faire Bay Area

The IBM Watson team has built an AI based precision agriculture demo with Sony’s low-power Spresense development board, conceptually named “Microgreen breeding chamber”. The Sony team showcased the solution last weekend during the Maker Faire Bay Area. The project combines artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and predictive analytics with industry expertise and decades of research. The aim is to aid stakeholders across the agriculture ecosystem in gaining insights into projected yields and potential problems, helping to enable better decisions. The demo has an environmental monitoring and control system with automated watering, voice feedback and sports a combination of edge and cloud computing. While the scope of the project is accessible for makers and developers, the backbone can scale to the enterprise level.

The steady stream of visitors to the packed Sony booth viewed additional live demos and hardware showing the wide range of uses cases Spresense can be deployed for, such as real-time gesture detection using AI, super low power GNSS solutions, multicore FFT analysis as well as image processing. The Spresense team also ran several workshop sessions during the event covering the topics of AI, multicore and how to program for low power consumption.

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