Jifei Technology Gong Huaqin: UAV AI Solutions Make Agriculture "Unmanned"

New technology can greatly change the mode of production in a short time. In the past few thousand years, farmers have promoted farmland in traditional ways, including seed sowing, plant protection, pesticide or fertilizer spraying. This traditional, labor-intensive method is time-consuming, resource-wasting and inefficient. China's rural agricultural economy is huge. There are 187,000 agricultural machinery operation service organizations, 46,700 agricultural machinery service organizations with an original value of 75,000 US dollars and 68,000 agricultural machinery cooperatives.
Digital agriculture has gradually become a focus. Using scientific and technological means to manage crops and soil in agricultural production process and produce dynamic spatial information system is the characteristic of "digital agriculture". Through these advanced technological means, farmers can achieve the goal of reducing costs, improving production efficiency, ensuring food quality safety and environmental protection, and realizing the transformation of traditional agriculture.
_UAV is one of the most effective tools for farmers to better manage their farmland. In the field of agricultural UAV, the leading manufacturer of agricultural UAV, Jifei Technology, dominates the current market. Equal Ocean interviewed Gong Huaqin, co-founder of Chifei Technologies, to further discuss the company's current business and future plans. Founded by a group of geeks in 2007, Chifei Technologies is now one of the largest agricultural UAV companies in the world, as well as a leading manufacturer of industrial UAV systems and a top agricultural technology company. Chifei Technology focuses on the development of agricultural automation and unmanned equipment. Over the past five years, Chifei has successfully introduced solutions for AI and UAV applications to millions of farmers around the world.
_Better Serve Agriculture and Farmers by Using "Information + Equipment"
_Extreme Flying Geography is devoting itself to the construction of agricultural maps by using remote sensing and mapping techniques. Extreme Flight Technology uses XMISSION (Mapping Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) to realize the basic mapping and construction of the map system. Afterwards, Geoffrey uses artificial intelligence technology to analyze maps of target sites, including trees in farmland, houses and poles. Polar flying geography can produce maps with a precision of 5 centimeters. After more than three years of drawing work, the team has now expanded to 70 people.
_Through a lot of algorithm training, extreme flying geography can identify 99.16% of the fruit trees in farmland. In addition, the collected map data can be used to calculate the number of pesticides, water, seeds and so on. After choosing farmland, farmers can upload personal information to financial institutions cooperating with Chifei for loans and other financial support.
_Polar Flying Geography is only one of the links of Polar Flying Science and Technology Information Service. At present, there are 10,000 UAVs and 100,000 sensors used to collect farmland data. In order to have the latest agricultural information, Chifei has generated more than 200 TB of data. Gong said:
The real digital agriculture should be based on farmland data.
It is very similar to Alipay, which generates massive data for user portrait analysis by using high frequency trading activities. Chifei's mission is to use these technologies to collect enough data and then help farmers make smarter decisions.
In order to collect more agricultural information, Chifei Science and Technology has built agricultural facilities in farmland. There are more than 2800 counties in China, of which more than 1100 counties have built service stations for Chifei Science and Technology. These service stations are designed to help companies obtain raw information about farmland, including temperature, environment, wind and so on.
By the end of 2019, Chifei plans to cover all counties and villages in China and have a comprehensive understanding of China's current agricultural situation. Gong concluded that there will be two kinds of agricultural companies in the future: one is to improve the production process to promote productivity of agricultural production companies; the other is to serve the agricultural supply chain to improve agricultural channels, consumption, brand and services. Jifei hopes to become a link between these two types of Companies in the future, and provide better solutions for farmers and agriculture through information services and hardware equipment.
_Intelligent Business Model and Four Level Strategy
At present, Chifei Technologies seeks to cooperate with regional agents by 0ing agents according to the area of administrative regions and local farmland. Chifei provides UAV and AIoT service support for its regional agents, including regional partners in counties, 4S stores and training centers, and UAV agricultural services for farmers. In addition, the technology will also provide intelligent services based on data collected regional agents and farmers. Chifei Technologies will ask distributors and regional agents for facilities purchase fees and data service fees to make profits.
For example, Gong Huaqin, a regional agent may purchase more than 100 Polar Fly Technologies'P-series UAVs; Polar Fly Technologies will charge farmers who use Polar Fly Agricultural Solutions and Services for information services. Farmers can easily understand the situation of farmland punctuality and make more wise decisions with the help of agricultural base stations and farm monitoring facilities of extreme flying technology.
Chifei will also provide farmland information to its external partners. For example, cooperate with China Merchants Bank to provide loans to qualified customers. Regional agents of Chifei Technologies can rent UAVs to farmers to make money. At the same time, through the use of flight control systems and other extreme flying technology equipment, regional agents can also provide relevant information to farmers.
According to Gong Huaqin, Jifei Science and Technology is building a four-level agricultural service system to better serve farmers and promote agricultural development:
_The first level is the most basic device for farmers.