Kubota Smart Village is a concept that helps to achieve a recycling-based world.
Here we introduce the sustainable systems for food, water, and resources that are needed to realize our goals, and Kubota's solutions to make these systems possible.
Automation of Agricultural Machinery & Precision Farming
This solution collects a wide range of data related to agricultural work, including farmland, pesticides and fertilizers used, harvests, machinery operation, and weather, using agricultural machinery with advanced sensing capabilities. It integrates this information into a data linkage platform and analyzes it using AI. By automating aspects such as efficient work plans, optimized harvesting times, and grain drying conditions, the solution achieves ultra-labor-saving in farm work along with increased crop yields and quality improvements.
Based on a variety of data stored in the data linkage platform, we help to make agriculture operations more efficient with an AI-based automated management system. This system not only plans work efficiently, but also formulates optimized plans for fertilizer and pesticide application and water management, helping to reduce costs. It analyzes wide-ranging data to develop production and business plans that generate greater profits, helping agriculture grow into a sustainable, appealing, and strong business.
Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) is a term for production process management to maintain sustainability in aspects of agriculture such as food safety, environmental conservation, and labor safety. Our Smart Agriculture Solutions manage various kinds of data in production processes on the data linkage platform, so farmers can inform consumers of the types of processes through which agricultural products were produced, contributing to safe and secure food provision.
Smart Agriculture Solutions contribute to the food value chain by connecting with market data. Some examples are delivering high-demand crops at reasonable prices in the places and amounts they are needed, which benefits both sellers and buyers and contributes to the reduction of food loss, which has been a major social issue in recent years.
IoT is used to collect data from water supply-related facilities and equipment, such as water treatment plants, rivers, and upstream/downstream pipelines. This big data is stored in a cloud server and analyzed using AI to enable efficient water management and monitoring, diagnosis, control, and prediction for infrastructure. The solutions contribute to improvements for resilient water infrastructure and addressing the aging of infrastructure, a major problem in recent years, helping to build a platform for safe and secure water delivery.
This system uses Kubota's water treatment systems to purify wastewater from use in daily life and industrial activities and reuses it as reclaimed water. Examples include water used for toilets and cleaning, water from industrial use, and park fountain water, all of which are essential for comfort in everyday life. It contributes to effective use of our limited water resources and enables a sustainable water cycle.
Agriculture is affected by weather. Especially with paddy fields, yields can be heavily influenced by water management. Our smart flood control system monitors water levels using sensors placed in rivers and paddy fields. When rainfall or other conditions cause water levels to rise, they connect with intake gates and pumps in rivers or the Kubota WATARAS farm water management system in paddy fields to remotely control the levels. This system improves crop yields and saves labor for water management.
Water pipes and various other kinds of pipes are buried under our cities. Kubota uses ICT to link its integrated platform of underground data, which has stored vast amounts of "ground data" collected over its many years in waterway development work, with its compact construction machinery to realize the efficient and safe building of underground infrastructure.
This system extracts and utilizes various energy sources including electricity from waste products generated at farms. For example, the heat generated from the incineration process produces electricity, which can be utilized in greenhouse crop cultivation. Heat and hot water can also be reused for heating and hot water supply in buildings. And methane gas can be extracted from waste products using a methane fermentation system, leading to efficient energy circulation and CO2 emissions reductions. These contribute to solutions to global energy problems and realization of carbon neutrality.
This solution automatically sorts sludge generated from agricultural and livestock waste and wastewater treatment using AI image recognition and crushes it. It uses Kubota's own rotating surface melting furnace to recover phosphorus, gold, silver, copper, and other valuable metals that can be used as fertilizer from the waste, and to produce molten slag for use as construction material. Kubota aims to use its series of solutions in crushing, sorting, incineration, and melting, which are required for waste treatment and its recycling, along with our wealth of experience and expertise in order to realize a recycling-oriented society that makes effective use of resources.