Every year the quaternary - year scholar Horticultural & Agribusiness at Inholland Delft University of Applied Sciences are again faced with the challenge of selecting a issue for the annual symposium that they are allow to orchestrate . They have knowledge of nursery gardening , both from the lecture dorm as well as from the glasshouse . But what is a desirable subject that also will do good the grower in practice ? The answer : engineering science , because agriculturist are aware that now more and more is possible in areas such as autonomous cultivation , monotone and even when ordering products online for utilisation in the nursery .
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sooner this calendar month , around 120 entrepreneur , students , teachers and concerned company pile up at Inholland University of Applied Sciences in Delft to take a look into the future during the event that was organise by students . Three utterer were given the chance to voice their reflections on the future , but also to explain whatever is already possible . After each presentation , provoking questions from the audience follow and that is not always the casing with meetings like this . A positive planetary house that made it clear that everyone had been stimulate to start consider again .
Dennis van Leeuwen , one of the organizers , acted as moderator
Autonomous cultivation : trust and guidanceFirst of all by Klaas van Egmond from Delphy and also team up maitre d' of ‘ The Croperators ’ , the Dutch squad from Delphy , Agro Energy and students from TU Delft and Inholland gained experience with autonomous Cucumis sativus cultivation during last twelvemonth ’s Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge . Klaas introduce the audience to everything that play a role in autonomous cultivation , although with a jiffy he immediately stated that he fuck very minuscule about both data and culture , while he did like to offer his ruling as Cultivation Engineer Expert . Klaas van Egmond ( Delphy )
During his story he pointed out that it is of import for growers to learn to trust the self-directed cultivation system . To help grower with that , good guidance is all important , according to Klaas , because growers should not immediately think about abandoning a system after two modest misplay . " We still believe in a role for guidance in autonomous culture and really not just because we as Delphy are active in that domain , " according to Klaas and with a caper .
At the same time , there is also a warm propensity to start relying too much on the system too quickly . If everything lead well , mistakes still creep in . This also in the pillowcase of the The Croperators , where the pH values rose during the challenge , but that was find too late , causing problems for the crop . More sensor , especially plant sensors , could have helped in that type .
Even so , also green thumb continue important , even when the model are fantabulous . “ Not everything you could keep in the nursery with datum and sensors just as quickly as the raiser with experience . But because growers are becoming scarcer , we are act upon on an ‘ idiot - proof ’ system with which , for example , a new - progress project afield can be operated without get an experienced agriculturist available . "
View the exposure report here . Suzanne Moor and Rob Helderman ( Royal Brinkman )
Advice to differentiate yourself , but also for a fee?From self-directed cultivation to e - mercantilism and the engineering behind the web shops where raiser can order their products . Suzanne Moor and Rob Helderman from Royal Brinkman essay to get the hearing involved with questions and examples . Are we going to order things with voice search ? Will cultivation advisor soon be able to observe through Google Glass to provide advice remotely ? doubtless , but at Royal Brinkman they still see a lasting role for human advice and cognition . “ Now still for free , but if it would plough out that we bring home the bacon the advice and the customer startle corrupt the products at a larger , cheesy WWW shop without an consultative service , then we should start thinking about a business model . Paying for advice might then become necessary , " according to the e - commercialism specialists .
Drones : more than just toys?Delivery with pilotless aircraft is grant to Royal Brinkman also something for the futurity , but drones are already also flying in greenhouses . Lucien Fesselet and Tom Kearney - Mitchell from Applied Drone Innovations make such drones with which they help agriculturist to visualize ever with child greenhouses . Scouting can be done decent with a monotone according to both speakers and it is a lot faster . With the right engineering you’re able to easily spot that one pathologic works and also to administer pest control with the drone at that location is also possible .
Lucien Fesselet and Tom Kearney - Mitchell ( Applied Drone Innovations )
challenge are with the free weight of the drone ; the heavier the bourdon , the more energy it consumes and the brusk the battery life will be . Precision is also a dot of care for the start - up , because you do n’t require to hit anything with the rotate propellers . Those same propellers also move a mountain of air , so many crops are not suitable for the bourdon . A trailer is very suitable for orchid . " In that sector they are assailable to invention and financing is available as well , " Tom chuckle . rose wine , on the other hand , are still excluded because of their slight nature , because the considerable displacement reaction of melodic phrase would blow the petal off .
radio-controlled aircraft monstrance during drinks by Lucien .
During drinks afterwards another presentation followed with the droning which had the participants feel the aura deracination . There was also an opportunity to talk further , whereby scholar and entrepreneurs could each share their own thoughts with each other about , for example , drones . A nice app , but also one that still has a number of difficult issues , as in fact is the sheath with all new techniques .
Scouting in floriculture is also very possible , for example , through a rotary motion system of container that all authorise by one location , while the drone that finds a pathologic plant also directly spreads the germs through the movement of air . Perhaps that is something for the students and ( novel ) offset - ups to count into ? It is then up to growers to give the student the blank space to try out in practice , because that is the only way to move on ideas further , as was repeatedly emphasized .
picture of the talking to with thanks to Yannick Valstar .
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