1.Principales and practices

Smart trapview

Background

Future agriculture will use sophisticated technologies such as robots, temperature and moisture sensors, aerial images, and GPS technology. These advanced devices and precision agriculture and robotic systems will allow farms to be more profitable, efficient, safe, and environmentally friendly. In fact we can create and innovate without causing damages on our plant .I strongly believe that we can change the wolrd better throw the new technologies .

Inspiration

As an agricultural and plant protection engineer , my project of end studies was about pesticides .It was an opportunity to reveal how much these chemichal products harms our planet and our bodies Indeed, to quote the authors of one of the most renowned papers on the topic:

“What, then, is the effect of pesticides? Pesticides have created a legacy of pain, and misery, and death for farm workers and consumers alike. The crop which poses the greatest danger, and the focus of our struggle, is the table grape crop. These pesticides soak the fields. Drift with the wind, pollute the water, and are eaten by unwitting consumers. These poisons are designed to kill, and pose a very real threat to consumers and farm workers alike. Cesar Chavez”

Why to design a smart trapview ?

To prevent the use of pesticide in controlling phytophagous insect such an insect called the tomato leaf miner Tuta absoluta presented in Tunisia wich the infestation causes yield losses of up to 100% on tomato, I decided to create a smart trapview

The pheromone is to attract the insect

In the bottom I will put a stickey plate to trap the insect once getting inside

I will use a camera to view the stickey plate and to take picture at a specific time using a servo motor .

These pictures will be sending to your smart phone .

you can check if your field is attacked by this pest or now and you can understand the degree of the infestationfrom from the number of insects that you will find without the necessity to check manually the trap

Risk level Number of captured insects / week:

Note : this trapview can be used to trap other insects (order lepidoptera ) by a simple step ;

You need just to change the pheremon capsule because every insect has a specific attractif !!

I will include a temperature and humidity sensor Dht11 to collect data at the same time , these information are needed for the crop management and also for theinsects surveillance , thes information will be displaying in the LCD