COMMON-Sense Net: Improved Water Management for Resource-Poor Farmers via Sensor Networks

2006 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development Pub Date : 2006-05-01 DOI:10.1109/ICTD.2006.301833

Michael Watts, Jacques Panchard, Seshagiri Rao, Jean-Pierre Hubaux

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We describe the on-going design and implementation of a sensor network for agricultural management targeted at resource-poor farmers in India. Our focus on semi-arid regions led us to concentrate on water-related issues. Throughout 2004, we carried out a survey on the information needs of the population living in a cluster of villages in our study area. The results highlighted the potential that environment-related information has for the improvement of farming strategies in the face of highly variable conditions, in particular for risk management strategies (choice of crop varieties, sowing and harvest periods, prevention of pests and diseases, efficient use of irrigation water etc.). This leads us to advocate an original use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). We believe our demand-driven approach for the design of appropriate ICT tools that are targeted at the resource-poor to be relatively new. In order to go beyond a pure technocratic approach, we adopted an iterative, participatory methodology

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常识网:通过传感器网络改善资源贫乏农民的水资源管理

我们描述了针对印度资源贫乏农民的农业管理传感器网络的持续设计和实施。我们对半干旱地区的关注使我们专注于与水有关的问题。在整个2004年，我们对我们研究地区的一个村庄的人口的信息需求进行了调查。研究结果突出表明，与环境有关的信息在面对高度变化的条件时具有改进农业战略的潜力，特别是在风险管理战略(选择作物品种、播种和收获期、防治病虫害、有效利用灌溉水等)方面。这使我们提倡对信息和通信技术(ICT)的原始使用。我们认为，以需求为导向设计针对资源贫乏国家的适当信息通信技术工具的方法相对较新。为了超越纯粹的技术官僚方法，我们采用了一种迭代的、参与式的方法

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