Innovation Showcase
Precision Dairy Sensors to Counter the Impact of Climate Change for Small Farmers
Innovation Showcase Chandrasekar Vuppalapati, Anitha Ilapakurti, Sharat Kedari, Jayashankar Vuppalapati, Santosh Kedari
Climate change is impacting milk production worldwide. For instance, increased heat stress in cows is causing average-sized dairy farms losing thousands of milk gallons each year; drastic climate change, especially in developing countries, pushing small farmers below the poverty line and is triggering suicides due to economic stress and social stigma. It’s profoundly clear that current dairy agriculture practices are falling short to counter the impacts of climate change. What we need are innovative and intelligent dairy farming techniques that employ best of traditional practices with data infused insights. However, there wasn’t any heat stress-to-climate models nor were the data. To overcome the data challenge, we have developed low-cost ($20 per cattle) dairy sensors and deployed in Punjab and Telangana states, and collected, at every 5-minute interval from 09/18/2015 to 11/22/2017, cattle activity, body temperature, and humidity. The application data science technique is known as Decision Tree on the data (approximately168 million records) with medication, geospatial (ambient temperature/humidity) data has helped us to develop cattle heat stress-to-climate decision models with the accuracy of 73%. The deployment of this data science algorithm into sensors, making it a precision sensor, enabled to deliver early warning heat-stress related notifications to small farmers. This has led small farmers to take proactive actions such as cooling dairy cattle through watering or improving dairy farm ventilation air-flow systems. Finally, we staunchly believe that perpetual learning, by man or by machine, and dissemination of information are the best defense to counter the effects of climate change.
Solution to the Increasing Carbon Dioxide and Green House Gas Worldwide: Implementation and Benefits of Biochar
Innovation Showcase Long-Chen Li
It has been proven and established by many international organisations and scholars of the benefits of Biochar. Our project objective is to find and connect the experts in various fields so that they can exchange their information, resulting in a strategy of sequestering the carbon that plants all over the Earth have already captured. Keeping that carbon from forming CO2 will lower atmospheric CO2, thus slowing and reversing global warming. I hope to take this opportunity to introduce Biochar to the experts that will be attending this conference, furthermore, we are only promoting this product and are not selling it.
