Liquid Prep offers an end-to-end solution for farmers looking to optimize their water usage; especially during times of drought. It is specially designed for low-literate farmers in developing countries who also need access to advanced agricultural advice to be successful.
By leveraging the use of an intuitive mobile app, local soil sensors, and backend service in IBM cloud, farmers can be better informed on how to use limited water supplies and increase their chances of growing healthy crop for their small plots of land.
The Call for Code 2019 Global Challenge asks teams of developers, designers, data scientists and business analysts to build solutions that significantly improve preparedness for natural disasters and accelerate relief when they hit. This year (2019), we are answering the call and are developing a solution for the many low-literate farmers in mostly developing countries to optimize the use of their limited water supply during times of drought.
Farmers are the key food providers of the world. Their crops are essential to global human survival and prosperity. Natural disasters, such as droughts, end up affecting farmers and all of us down the line. With increasing fluctuations in global climate, we believe this is a very important problem to tackle.
We have developed Liquid Prep, an end-to-end solution for farmers looking to optimize their usage of water; especially during times of drought. The following depicts what our Liquid Prep solution consists of:
- Soil Moisture Sensor module to measure the soil moisture level.
- Clever Crop mobile app for users/famers with low literacy to easily understand, interact and get water advice for selectd crop.
- IBM Cloud Backend Service hosted on IBM Cloud.
- The Weather Company APIs.
- Project Setup
- Moisture Sensor Module Setup
- Clever Crop App Setup - coming soon
- IBM Cloud Backend Service Setup
- Project Roadmap
- Contributing
The Liquid Prep solution currently comprises mainly a mobile app, a soil humidity sensor module, and IBM cloud platform for accessing weather and crop data. Our future roadmap adds more functionality to the Liquid Prep platform by
- Localizing the app
- Add more crops data
- Consider soil properties for better water advice.
Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.
Copyright 2019-2020 Liquid Prep
This project is licensed under the Apache 2 License - see the LICENSE file for details