1. Cloud-based Facile Field Data Collection Kazuki Kobayashi Shinshu Univ. (Japan) Yasunori Saito Shinshu Univ. (Japan)

2. 2 Background SHINSHU UNIVERSITY ICT agriculture for high quality and increase of production Field monitoring systems for precision agriculture Garcia-Sanchez11 Hirafuji 05 Lee 10 Riquelme 09

3. 3 Problem and Approach SHINSHU UNIVERSITY Small farmers’ worries Computer skills Initial costs Effort for maintenance Approach: Very easy field data collection with commercial items and popular Web services

4. 4 Devices and Cloud Services SHINSHU UNIVERSITY DSLR Camera (EOS Kiss X4) Wi-Fi SD Card (Eye-Fi) Wi-Fi SD Card (Eye-Fi) Micro Controller (Arduino, Ether Shield) Micro Controller (Arduino, Ether Shield) Photo MOS Relay Temperature Sensor Photo Sharing (Flickr) Text data Sharing (Twitter) Job Scheduler (Google Apps Script) DevicesCloud Services Wi-Fi Converter

5. 5 Digital Single Lens Reflex Camera SHINSHU UNIVERSITY Canon EOS Kiss X4 with 18-55 mm lens ($540)

6. 6 SD Memory Card with Wi-Fi capabilities SHINSHU UNIVERSITY Eye-Fi Pro X2 8GB + Wi-Fi ($105)

7. 7 Micro Controller SHINSHU UNIVERSITY Arduino UNO ($29) Ethernet Shield($45)

8. 8 Wi-Fi Converter SHINSHU UNIVERSITY Planex MZK-RP150N ($29)

9. 9 Photo MOS Relay and Temperature Sensor SHINSHU UNIVERSITY Panasonic Electric Works AQY214EH ($4) National Semiconductor LM61BIZ ($1)

10. 10 Devices SHINSHU UNIVERSITY

11. 11 Housing SHINSHU UNIVERSITY Hand made housing

12. 12 Twitter SHINSHU UNIVERSITY Arduino automatically posts temperature information to Twitter as text data

13. 13 Code for Twitter Posting and Camera Control SHINSHU UNIVERSITY Controls the camera focus and the shutter Posts the temperature value to Twitter after converting a sensor value to temperature

14. 14 Flickr SHINSHU UNIVERSITY Eye-Fi sends photos to Flickr

15. 15 Google Apps Script SHINSHU UNIVERSITY Apps Script constantly watches Twitter (temperature) and Flickr (photos) Captures the temperature information and posts it to the photo on Flickr as a comment The script finds the photo which is taken at the same time as the temperature

16. 16 Data Flow SHINSHU UNIVERSITY Flickr Wi-Fi SD Card (Eye-Fi) Wi-Fi SD Card (Eye-Fi) Micro Controller (Arduino, Ether Shield) Micro Controller (Arduino, Ether Shield) Wi-Fi Converter Google Apps Script Twitter temperature update info. temperature photo control signal update info. DSLR Camera (EOS Kiss X4)

17. 17 Flickr with Temperature data SHINSHU UNIVERSITY

18. 18 Graph Viewer -- Chrome Extension SHINSHU UNIVERSITY

19. 19 Graph Viewer -- Chrome Extension SHINSHU UNIVERSITY from Flickr from Flickr from Twitter from Twitter

20. 20 Comment Manager -- Chrome Extension SHINSHU UNIVERSITY

21. 21 Comment Manager -- Chrome Extension SHINSHU UNIVERSITY Add to Flickr comment From Flickr comment It behaves as Flickr wrapper

22. 22 Conclusion SHINSHU UNIVERSITY Cloud service based field data collection method Cloud cooperation and data integration  Low initial cost  Low maintenance effort Develop a packaged device and provide it to small farmers