AgBioEn wins agriculture project award for data science system – Projects
(L-R) Anthony Wales and Steve Johns.
AgBioEn has received finest agriculture venture within the 2022 iTnews Benchmark Awards for a cloud and IoT-based system designed to enhance crop yields whereas producing extra agricultural waste that may be transformed into biofuels.
The Melbourne-based firm is working with La Trobe College scientists and Microsoft accomplice Lab3 on the know-how.
Information collected by sensors is distributed to the Azure cloud, the place College scientists take it and develop knowledge fashions able to accommodating numerous environmental circumstances.
The corporate has three goals by means of its trials: to enhance yields in grain or cob, utilizing natural waste as fertiliser (for cleaner meals manufacturing with larger yield); improve the biomass of agricultural waste reminiscent of thicker stalks that may be processed to generate vitality; and improve carbon sequestered within the soil, thereby decreasing carbon footprint.
An preliminary crop trial in a northern Victorian maize area achieved all of those goals, notably crop enhancements larger than 30 %, and extra waste to generate gas from.
AgBioEn, will now conduct additional crop trials over the following three-to-four years.
The IoT gadgets used within the trial embody probes, climate stations and drones.
Lab3’s function within the venture was additionally recognised within the 2021 CRN Impact Awards, run by iTnews’ sister publication CRN.
AgBioEn in the end plans to provide 150 million litres of gas every year, and can spend round $2 billion reaching scale.
You’ll be able to learn extra about AgBioEn’s work alongside the opposite profitable tasks and finalists here.
Winners had been introduced on the iTnews Benchmark Awards gala dinner held at KPMG’s Sydney Workplace in Barangaroo.
