UX Design

Farm

Smart farming management system

A comprehensive tool to manage and oversee smart farms

Introduction

Project aim

A design challenge : Designing a dashboard that serve as a comprehensive tool for Clark to manage and oversee his farms, providing real-time information, insights, and recommendations to optimise resource allocation, inventory management, market strategies, and land utilisation efficiency.

Timeline

1 week

Design Process

1 Understand

De-briefing the design challenge

2 Research

3 Define

Secondary research
- Literature review
Synthesis & insight generation

Scenario
Needs & requirement

Ideate

Design

Design direction
Process flow

Wireframes
Hi-fi screens

4

5

De-briefing

design

challenge

Designing a dashboard that serve as a comprehensive tool for Clark to manage and oversee his farms, providing real-time information, insights, and recommendations to optimise resource allocation, inventory management, market strategies, and land utilisation efficiency.

De-brief

Summary

Literature review

Benefits of smart farms include increased productivity, optimized resource management, reduced operational costs, improved crop quality.

Smart farming is also known as Precision agriculture. It's a management concept focused on providing the agricultural industry with the infrastructure to leverage advanced technology.

The driving force of smart farming is IoT — connecting machines and sensors integrated on farms to make farming processes data-driven and automated

Smart farming

Smart farming focuses on managing farms, plantations, and all associated farming activities using IoT, drones, robotics, machinery, and artificial intelligence, to determine a path to predictable farm output.

Crop production

process

To gain a comprehensive understanding of agricultural practices, it's important to observe it from systemic perspective to reveals the interconnectivity of the various components necessary for optimal performance.

In order to simplify the assessment of farming practices, I have identified three distinct phases: pre-farming activities, farming activities, and post-farming activities.

Pre-farming

activites

Preparation of soil : a ploughing, soil levelling, applying fertiliser
Selection of seed : quality of seed, quantity of seed, preparation for a seed sowing

Farming

activites

Sowing of seed
Manuring
Irrigation
Weeding
Pest control
Monitoring

Post-farming

activites

Harvesting
Threshing
Winnowing
Storage

Analysis

The detailed mapping of farming activites helped in combining activities in catoegries for better visualisation for the Dasboard design.

Resource Planning

Workforce
Raw material
Tools & machinery

Monitoring

Crop nutrition monitoring
Fertilisation application
Water & soil nutrition
Climate condition
Machinery monitoring : activities, productivity, efficient use
Sensors working

Activities & task Scheduling

Crop planner
Time & action plan
Allotment of task

Protection & diagnosis

Soil & plant diagnose
Pest and disease detection and diagnosis
Weed identification & treatment

Information system

Agriculture knowledge
Market information
News & articles

Control & management

Raw material quality
Process management
Risk management - invader attach, climate condition, pest attach
Workforce training management
Irrigation control
Tools & machinery maintenance

Inventory management

Product type -seed, fertiliser, chemical
Product details - cost, expired date, quantity, etc.
Total quantity of material
Total Capital of material

Warehouse management

Raw material quality
Process management
Risk management - invader attach, climate condition, pest attach
Workforce training management
Irrigation control
Tools & machinery maintenance

Define

As per the specifications outlined in the design challenge brief, it is imperative that the Mr.Clark (farm manager) be equipped with smart technology to effectively operate all devices in a highly efficient manner.

Scenario

Clark was notification that severe heat waves were expected the following week. To protect his crops from the potentially harmful impact of such weather conditions, he is currently working on a plan to determine the optimal moisture levels in the soil. Additionally, he is making sure his irrigation system operates at maximum efficiency.

GOAL

Quick and easier decision-making
Maintaining crop hydric status and irrigation system
maintain moisture level in soil
protect crop from extreme climate

TASK

Schedule and activate an irrigation system for a week based on the weather forecasting
make irrigation system more dynamic
detail report of soil & crop health

Need & requirement

Early detection of extreme situations to preventing crop any harm.

A Tool that assists in managing such situations and easy to learn & operate

Toolkit and guide available for reference during extreme situations.

Ideate

According to the given situation, Mr. Clark needs a tool that can warn or inform him beforehand about impending severe weather conditions, such as heat waves. This will help him protect his farm from any potential harm.

Solution

Early alert

An early alert and notification is sent to inform individuals of the potential risk of crop damage.

Climate-farm management

An aid in the task of managing agricultural risk that can assist individuals or organisations involved in the agricultural industry to minimise or mitigate potential risks associated with climatic variability that can negatively impact agricultural productivity, profitability, and sustainability.

Tool

Assessment report

A comprehensive assessment report to evaluate the potential impact and aid in the prioritisation of tasks and allocation of suitable resources.

Mitigation plan

The automatic layout of a mitigation plan entails the systematic process of reducing the impact of potential risks.

Process flow

Information architecture

A well-planned and systematic approach has been developed to ensure that Mr. Clark, can efficiently execute all the essential tasks required to safeguard the crops from the extreme heat waves.