Estimating the number of strawberry harvests with AI-equipped robots.
In Koshigaya City, Saitama Prefecture, where we are revitalizing the region through strawberry hunting, research to estimate the number of strawberries using AI = artificial intelligence has begun in order to efficiently attract many customers to the tourist farm.
This research was jointly conducted by Koshigaya City and an agricultural venture company in Tokyo, and started on the 10th at an agricultural house in a research facility in the city.
The research uses an AI-equipped robot to make it possible to accurately estimate the number of strawberry harvests that have previously relied on farmers' experiences and intuition. You can count the red colored strawberries.
Knowing the number of harvests will help you calculate the number of tourists you can accept.
In the future, AI wants to recognize the redness of strawberries in several stages and predict the number of harvests.
Koshigaya City has one of the largest strawberry tourist farms in the Kanto region that is crowded with many tourists. In the future, how to increase the number of tourists and manage them efficiently is an issue. The
The strawberry harvest season is from January to May, but the number of harvests varies from day to day, and it is important for the tourist farm to accept as many tourists as possible efficiently.
Mr. Akira Takahashi, Koshigaya Agricultural Technology Center, said, “If we can predict the number of strawberry harvests, we will be able to save labor and increase profits for farmers.”