A smart digital agricultural monitoring platform in Xi'an City of northwest China's Shaanxi Province has leveraged China-developed BeiDou navigation system and 5G-powered aerial survey and remote sensing technologies to match in real-time the supply and demand of harvesting machinery accurately in the current prime winter wheat harvest season period from mid-May to June.
The platform, operated by the Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs in Xi'an, provides real-time information on demands for agricultural machinery based on the city's wheat harvesting activities and geographical distribution of agricultural machinery.
"The agricultural machinery dispatching subsystem, relying on BeiDou positioning technology, can locate 1,500 wheat harvesters in our city and show their distribution and operation status in real time, which will greatly improve their dispatching efficiency, deployment path, and minimize the losses caused by disasters," said Liu Bo, a technical director of the platform.
So far, the digital, smart agricultural machinery dispatching platform has been promoted in relevant districts and counties of Xi'an. This year, more than 100 demands for agricultural machinery have been released, and the required harvesting area exceeds 860 hectares.
"We used to rely on ourselves to find work, but now we can use this platform. It is very convenient and we can find work directly through the platform. Now, work finds me and my harvester. For example, I receive four to five orders today," said Shi Jin, a harvester driver.
Xi'an has harvested half of its winter wheat, or 70,000 hectares so far.
Smart agriculture platform provides harvester positioning service in Xi'an
