Industry giants hold hand | Agricultural drone driving will become the next outlet?

When we talk about autopilot, many people first think of scenes such as cars and trucks. In fact, China’s agricultural development also urgently needs the combination of automatic driving and agricultural machinery. On April 10, Lovol Heavy Industries and Baidu signed a strategic cooperation agreement. Both sides will With the goal of realizing automatic driving mass production, deep cooperation has been carried out in the areas of autopilot technology and big data analysis.

Lovol Heavy Industry and Baidu Strategic Signing Ceremony

This is another major action taken by Lovol Heavy Industries to deeply grasp the development trend of the industry. Wang Guimin, chairman and general manager of Lovol Heavy Industries, said: “The Party’s Nineteenth Congress proposed to implement the strategy of village rejuvenation. This year's Central Document No. 1 is for the implementation of rural areas. The revitalization strategy has been fully deployed. It has clearly stated that we must vigorously develop digital agriculture. As agricultural machinery companies, we provide smarter, more open agricultural machinery and convenient and highly efficient information services for agricultural production. We are duty-bound and responsible.

As a leading enterprise in the agricultural machinery industry, Lovol Heavy Industries has a keen insight into the development of the industry. As early as 2012, it began to lay out smart agricultural machinery and smart agriculture. In a few years, Lovol Heavy Industries successfully broke through the bottleneck of domestic intelligent agricultural machinery such as power shifting. Publishes the first smart agricultural solution (iFarming) in the agricultural machinery industry. This spring plowing has demonstrated the new achievements of full-scale unmanned planting in the Xinjiang region, and continues to depict a new vision for smart agriculture.

The new era gives opportunities, and new initiatives will empower the future. The giants of the agricultural machinery will be the giants of Internet service providers. The arrows will refer to smart agricultural machinery and smart agriculture. Will agricultural drones become the next one?

Strong and strong joint construction of collaborative innovation mechanism

Obviously, the unmanned agricultural machine has unparalleled advantages. The unmanned agricultural machine can be used in fields such as turning the land, hoeing land, rotating ploughing, ridging, planting, spraying, and harvesting. The development and promotion of unmanned agricultural machinery technology is bound to It will bring about earth-shaking changes for the peasant life, agricultural machinery industry, and agricultural development. At present, the lack of agricultural labor force and the increasingly higher requirements for the efficiency of agricultural machinery, unmanned agricultural machinery undoubtedly has good advantages and huge market potential. .

At present, companies in the domestic agricultural machinery industry have entered the field of unmanned driving and have made progress. But industry experts bluntly stated that the research and development of large-area applications of unmanned agricultural machinery has a long process and needs to be vigorously tackled and promoted. In response, Wang Guimin analyzed that: 'The development of core technologies is the key to the development of unmanned agricultural machinery. Compared to Deere, Case and other well-known foreign brands, the pace of domestic companies is relatively backward, which requires related R & D institutions and manufacturing enterprises. Strengthen cooperation and work together. '

Based on this, Lovol Heavy Industries in hand Baidu, give full play to their respective advantages, build a collaborative innovation platform, jointly unleashed unmanned agricultural machinery.

According to industry experts, vehicle networking equipment, related software services, and hydraulic steering systems are the keys to unmanned agricultural machinery. Through the analysis of Baidu and Lovol Heavy Industries, both parties have basic advantages in driverlessness, and they have certain complementarities. .

With this signing, the two parties will fully share their respective advantageous resources and cooperate in the software platform of autopilot technology, hardware platform, perception capability, core service, big data analysis and marketing innovation, and achieve a high degree of integration of informationization and industrialization. With the goal of automatic driving mass production, both parties invest their resources to solve technical problems in the field of automated driving, such as sensor industry pre-installation, system stability under extreme conditions, etc.

Relevant data show that Revo products have contributed 60%, 30%, and 30% of China's wheat harvest, rice harvest, and corn harvest, respectively, and the total contribution of farming income has reached over 40%. It can be said that Loewo Heavy industry innovation and delivery in the field of agricultural equipment products have a direct impact on domestic agricultural production methods.

Li Zhenyu, vice president of Baidu, the general manager of the smart driving business group, stated: 'Apollo's open platform has been continuously opening up its capabilities, sharing resources, empowering many developers and partners, and constantly exploring new scenarios of autonomous driving, accelerating partners and Industrial upgrading after the integration of artificial intelligence. The cooperation between Baidu and Lovol Heavy Industries allowed us to see the recognition and confidence of our partners in the open platform of Apollo, and to provide more possibilities for the landing of automated driving technology. This will also inject into agriculture. Intelligent genes, for agricultural workers 'reduce the burden of production'. '

Loewe Heavy Industries is working with Baidu. The combination of 1+1>2 strengths will surely send out huge industrial integration energy. With the development and application of unmanned technology, farmers friends may drink in Tiantou in the near future. With tea, talking about state affairs, with just a few clicks of the remote control, the unmanned agricultural equipment can easily plow the ground, broadcast the seeds, spread the medicine, and take the crops back to the house.

Deep ploughing smart areas

If the first half of the Internet can be attributed to the consumer Internet, then the second half of the Internet is the industrial Internet. Experts assert that in the next five years, the 'airport' will emerge in the industrial Internet sector. German Industrial 4.0 is born of this, 'Made in China 2025' ' Also born from this.

In the 'Made in China 2025' strategy, 'smart agricultural machinery and equipment' is one of the ten high-end fields that are planned to break through. The country and Shandong Province have all introduced smart agricultural machinery equipment development planning and support policies. Smart agricultural machinery has very good development potential. .

As an industry leader, Lovol Heavy Industries had long been planning ahead in the field of smart agricultural machinery, carried out an early layout, and seized the initial victory.

March 23, 2018, Aboss tractors that are autopiloting driving operations

Not long ago, the field demonstration of the autopilot pilot system in the Aksu region of Xinjiang had special significance for Lovol Heavy Equipment. From 2012, the Revo tractor-driven tractor completed its first field test in Shihezi, Xinjiang, and it is now broken into a butterfly. Marks the 'Agricultural Machinery Navigation and Automated Operation' system that is equipped by Lovol's driverless tractor and officially announces the commercial application to the market, and realizes the full-scale application of scientific research results to practical productivity.

Academician Luo Xiwen of the Chinese Academy of Engineering said at the scene: “Informationization is becoming a new momentum for promoting agricultural mechanization. As currently, this agricultural machinery navigation and automatic operation system has been applied in batches after many years of market verification. The accuracy of automatic navigation is 5 centimeters, close to the international advanced At a level, the price is at least 1/3 cheaper than that of foreign countries, effectively reversing the long-term reliance on imports of high-end smart agricultural equipment in China.

Industry experts said that with the arrival of the intelligentization of agricultural machinery, the development of high-end agricultural machinery industry has entered a substantive breakthrough stage. Lovol focuses on leading domestic agricultural equipment companies and explores the intelligent, green, high-end and comfort aspects of agricultural machinery and equipment. Out of a lot of scientific research achievements, it represents the frontier level of China's agricultural machinery and equipment.

Only by deep-seating a field can we build a strong foundation. Lovol Heavy Industries has laid a foundation for exploring and researching intelligent agricultural machinery and equipment technologies and products for several years. With the gradual improvement of intelligent vehicle-mounted systems and Baidu's joining, Smart Unmanned The process of R&D and mass production driving agricultural machinery will be expected to accelerate.

Multi-party cooperation promotes the development of smart agriculture

In this era of informationization, the importance of data resources is self-evident. In the process of intelligent transformation and upgrading, agricultural big data is an important direction. The report of the Nineteenth Congress proposed that accelerating the development of advanced manufacturing industries, promote the Internet, big data , Deep integration of artificial intelligence and real economy.

Exploring the use of next-generation information technology such as big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence to provide intelligent integrated solutions for modern agriculture. LOVOL is rapidly transforming from traditional product manufacturers to modern service providers.

On October 26, 2016, Loewapoz Smart Agriculture 2025 Strategic Cooperation 'Three Kingdoms and Six Parties' contract

In 2016, LOVOL launched the first smart agriculture solution in the domestic agricultural machinery industry at the National Agricultural Machinery Exhibition in the fall, called iFarming. This project was jointly developed by LOVOL and Italy's University of Bologna, China Agricultural University. , South China Agricultural University, IBM, e Tian Technology and other 'three countries and six parties' jointly researched and developed, from cultivating, seeding, planting, plant protection, harvesting to grain drying storage, comprehensively integrating information technology and agricultural production, relying on the Internet, Internet of Things and Big data integration and interconnection.

On October 26, 2017, Chairman and General Manager of Lovol Heavy Industries Wang Guimin signed a contract with Topcon CEO Fabio Isaia

In October 2017, Lovol and Topcon signed a strategic cooperation agreement to further strengthen their cooperation and exchanges in the field of smart agriculture, jointly promote the development of precision agriculture and smart agriculture in China, and boost the development process of China's agricultural modernization.

Enterprises, universities, the Internet, domestic and foreign, this multi-dimensional combination of strengths and strengths is the first time in China's agricultural machinery industry. Lovol Heavy Industries has taken substantial steps toward the service provider of 'Intelligent Agricultural Total Solutions'. 2017 In October, the construction of the 2025 Strategy and the 100 Intelligent Agricultural Machinery Cooperatives in Leiboa Persian Agriculture was formally launched. The first batch of 100 agricultural machinery cooperatives began to comprehensively promote the use of iFarming, which means that agricultural machinery cooperation organizations are in the field of informatization and intelligent construction. A substantial step has been taken. Relying on specialized agricultural cooperatives, iFarming has acquired from the field the six systems of grain production monitoring, farm fleet management, job scheduling, intelligent services, operational quality monitoring and automatic driving. ' The most realistic, most appropriate application results.

Committed to boosting the development of 'smart agriculture', in the summer of 2017, during the autumn and fall, Lovol Heavy Industries launched the 'Internet of Vehicles', Zhilian Cloud Service, and built a big data analysis of 'harvester index' in agricultural production. Staged 'smart summer harvest' and 'smart autumn harvest' to lead China's agriculture into the 'Internet +' era.

'Intelligence of agricultural machinery will be an important part of AI's new kinetic energy to drive agricultural development. It will also become an important step in the transition of traditional agriculture to smart agriculture in China. In the future, we will continue to unite with other parties’ resources and explore the use of big data in depth. Calculations, such as artificial intelligence and other new generation Internet information technologies, intensify innovation to develop smarter, more efficient, and greener new products, and continue to provide intelligent overall solutions for modern agriculture. 'Louis Heavy Industries Chairman and General Manager Wang Guimin said.

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