Abstract: Even college developers have the power to change the world.
“How do WE get the villagers back?”
Xun Qi, a college student and developer, is from a village in Laiwu, Shandong Province. In the dictionary, the definition of laiwu is “barren”. Surrounded by mountains on three sides, mountains and hills account for 90% of the area. The economy depends on agriculture, but large-scale planting is not possible. The efficiency is low and the income is not high, so many people choose to leave.
The day is not bright, the village people will jump on a motorcycle to go outside to work, young adults go, the old and children left, the village did not have the popularity, home little warmth, which makes the young university student developer Sion always immersed in meditation.
He wants to change that.
With nostalgia for his hometown, he studied Internet of Things technology, developed “smart greenhouses”, improved per mu yield, increased farmers’ income, changed the rural landscape, and achieved results. Even college developers have the power to change the world.
There is not enough knowledge in the classroom
At school, the sion was a popular target. The campaign he shared attracted more than 800 applicants, more than half of the college’s students. Where does influence come from? It started with his first exposure to the Internet of things.
The Priory course itself deals with signaling and control. Sion found that he enjoyed programming, building hardware, and controlling. Whether it’s controlling a small light or turning a small motor, it gives him a sense of accomplishment.
In her sophomore year, Sion began to learn about the Internet of Things. His programming ability and circuit knowledge are more abundant. The experimental object also from the single chip microcomputer, to embedded development, and then to the Internet of things, imperceptibly changed to the developer.
The school curriculum was no longer enough to satisfy sion’s thirst for knowledge, so he began to spend time in the lab researching methods of communication, learning about modular and digital electricity.
By chance, he came into contact with Huawei Cloud and the Internet of Things, and found a stage to display his talent.
We will use the Internet of things to solve problems related to agriculture, rural areas and farmers
What project are you working on? Sion noted that Huawei cloud IoT platform involves lighting, water, electricity, temperature sensing and many other functions. Park, light, water, temperature…… These elements brought the sion back to its rural home, thinking of scallions, garlic, ginger and sichuan peppercorns planted on hilly hillsides because there was no flat ground. If you can automatically set the temperature, light and moisture, you can realize automated crop farming, one person can take care of several greenhouses, greatly improve agricultural efficiency, farmers increase income problem solved!
In a moment of inspiration, Sion decided to develop a “smart greenhouse”.
From that moment on, Sion transformed himself from a lover of the Internet of Things to the leader of an Internet of Things development team, and a door opened for him.
Sion recruited three other students. He was responsible for the overall planning and model building, one was responsible for programming and hardware, one was an agricultural consultant, and one was responsible for writing reports and PPT.
Sion set out to lead the team toward finding an answer to the agricultural pain point. In the process, there is the joy of learning together, there is also the enrichment of studying and forging ahead, but also got huawei cloud IoT strong foreign aid.
** Huawei Cloud provides a huge and complete IoT development system for IoT developers. ** Huawei cloud network has the capability of side-end collaboration to meet various scenarios and application development.
For beginners like Huan, Huawei Cloud offers an extremely friendly entry experience. Huan recalled that Huawei Cloud IoT had a “10-minute Quick Start” course, which allowed beginners to understand the basic situation of the Internet of Things in a very short time, which provided a great help for them to clear the way.
** Huawei Cloud IoT Assistant provided technical support and assistance to the Sion team throughout the development process. ** Finally, after more than half a year, the “Smart Greenhouse” project finally took shape.
The sion has initially designed three functions for the “intelligent greenhouse”, which are remote monitoring of the environment, automatic control and automatic alarm. Through the monitoring of temperature, humidity and light by sensors, the greenhouse can control the lighting lamp, resistance wire, fan, rolling curtain, irrigation system and other equipment in the shed, and automatically adjust the threshold value of the above elements, so as to achieve unmanned planting to a certain extent.
In sion’s vision, “smart greenhouse” will also be equipped with artificial intelligence, such as AI visual identification of pests and diseases, automatic alarm, automatic adjustment of greenhouse parameters according to the types of pests and diseases, and automatic implementation of pest control programs. On the one hand, the production reduction and pesticide spraying caused by diseases and insect pests will be reduced, and on the other hand, labor force will be further liberated. AI can also be used to count the number of crop results, accurately predict output, improve production efficiency and realize smart agriculture.
Sion believed that the main reason people gave up farming and left their homeland was the inefficiency of farming. In his hometown, where corn and wheat are the main crops, the “smart greenhouse” can be converted to unlimited growth crops such as tomatoes. The annual yield of wheat per mu is about 800 jin, and the output value per mu is 896 yuan. But greenhouse tomatoes can bear fruit all year round, mu yield reached 20,000 jin, mu output value of more than 30,000, equivalent to 33 times higher than the kind of wheat. The farmer invests 80,000 yuan in the first year, recoups 60,000 yuan in the second year, makes a profit of 30,000 yuan in the third year, and makes a profit of 60,000 yuan every year thereafter.
Solve the income problem, other problems will be solved.
Sion and his teammates started the competition with their own “Wisdom greenhouse” project.
The bigger world
The “Smart Greenhouse” project not only won the first prize in The North China Division of Huawei Developer Competition. They were also invited to many developer events in Huawei and began to systematically understand the full picture of the developer ecosystem in Huawei.
At this time, the sion seemed like a fish entering the sea and entering the vast world of Huawei developer ecology. Now, Sion is not only an experienced developer, external moderator of huawei Cloud IoT Forum, but also an active “evangelist” for the Internet of Things. Sion made PPT and VLOG to share her experience of winning the competition and participating in the event, and received enthusiastic response.
I want to move on
Now, as a junior, She will face the same life choices as all college students. Employment or further education? The Sion decided to move on to the Internet of Things.
The problems of agriculture, rural areas and rural areas are manifested by people’s departure from the land, resulting from low agricultural income and low agricultural efficiency. According to Sion, Huawei provides developers with the technology, development tools and methods to solve these problems.
His idea has expanded from simple “smart greenhouse” to include “smart greenhouse”, “benefit farmers mall”, “agricultural insurance” three areas of “benefit farmers platform”. The greenhouse improves agricultural efficiency, the mall improves the profit of agricultural products, and the agricultural insurance increases the risk resistance of farmers. The combination of the three can push up the per capita grain production, improve the per capita income, make people want to return to the countryside, willing to build the countryside, and change the overall appearance of the countryside.
Since 2016, the number of cloud and computing developers in Huawei has grown from 25,000 to 1.8 million, an increase of more than 70 times. In 2019, Huawei released “Fertile Land Plan 2.0”, investing 1.5 billion US dollars in the next five years to develop cloud and computing developers. It is thanks to the trust and tireless efforts of developers like Sion that thousands of drops of water converged into a river.
This article is shared from Huawei cloud community “from rural college students developers, just want to let the villagers go home”, original author: lemon PH=2.
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