The first “5G+Unmanned Farm” demonstration base in the province

In June, the wheat fragrance spreads all over the earth, and golden grains return to the warehouse. In the scorching summer, wheat has already begun to be harvested in many places. Today (June 16th), at the unmanned farm in Xinba Town, Haizhou District, Lianyungang City, the summer harvest and summer planting work has been unmanned. Unmanned agricultural machinery has replaced manual labor to work in an orderly manner in the agricultural field, achieving high yield and efficiency in leveling and harvesting summer harvest and seeds.
During the summer wheat harvest season, in the already harvested wheat field behind the reporter, the land consolidation machine is shuttling back and forth. Upon closer observation, it will be discovered that there is no driver on the agricultural machinery, so how can the machine operate on its own? In fact, this 1300 acre land is the first “5G+Unmanned Farm” demonstration base in the province. With just a click of a mouse, agricultural robots and automation equipment can be busy in the vast farmland, without the need for manual intervention throughout the entire process.
The reporter noticed that not far away from the wheat field, a technician was skillfully operating his phone. The harvester moved freely in the wheat field with the instructions issued by the technician’s phone, and the real-time transmission of harvest data was also refreshed on the phone. Behind this new agricultural production method is the support of 5G+Beidou technology.
During the summer harvest, relying on 5G technology, the farm achieved precise planting and visual management in analyzing information such as insect pest, soil moisture, and meteorological data. Multiple brands of agricultural machinery and equipment such as unmanned tractors, transplanters, plant protection machines, and harvesters were interconnected at high speeds. Combined with Beidou high-precision positioning technology, the precision of mechanical operations was improved to the centimeter level, running through the entire process of cultivation, planting, management, and harvesting of grain crops.
The secret to achieving unmanned driving lies in the two antennas at the top of the harvester, which are used to receive Beidou positioning signals. The intelligent harvester is equipped with an agricultural Beidou terminal and an auxiliary driving system, which can achieve dynamic centimeter level operation accuracy, “said Wang Bin, the person in charge of Yizhinong Agriculture Co., Ltd. of Jiangsu Haizhou Agricultural Development Group.

The unmanned driving of agricultural machinery is to realize the whole process of unmanned starting from the hangar to the field operation, and then returning to the hangar. The whole unmanned degree is relatively high, and there are high requirements for network delay and other characteristics. It is the time for 5G network and edge computing technology to show their talents.
Based on high-tech, “unmanned farms” can obtain real-time data on soil fertility, crop growth, diseases and pests, and other aspects of rice and wheat growth. Further opened up the four major links of “cultivation, planting, management, and harvesting”. After a year of homework testing, compared to traditional mechanical operations, the work efficiency has been improved by 10%, pesticide costs have been reduced by 5%, and labor costs have been saved by about 50%.

The development of smart agriculture not only solves the problem of “difficult service in the last mile of agricultural information”, but also promotes the development of new agricultural formats. The promotion of drone plant protection, automatic driving of agricultural machinery, and rural e-commerce can more reasonably allocate the limited resources of the entire agricultural industry chain and enhance the value of the entire agricultural industry chain.