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스마트형 ‘미소해충 무인자동 예찰기’ 개발
Smart “minute size insect unmanned automatic monitor” to be in action

김동순 교수 연구팀, 현장 실증실험 착수 Prof. Kim Dong Soon testing on-site performance

Jeju National University Plant Resource and Environment Majors Insect Ecological Laboratory team (Professor Kim Dong Soon in charge) and his research coworkers have developed a smart minute size harmful insect monitor---unmanned and automatic and being on-site tested, it was announced earlier today (August 10, 2020). The insect observing machine has been jointly developed with the collaborators including the National Academy of Horticulture and Special Crop Science: Institute of Climate Change and Agriculture (Suh Hyeong Ho, Director) and MS Mecha Tech (Kim Sung Nam, CEO).

The research just completed has been funded (1.2 billion krw) through the Rural Development Administration since 2018.

The small size (~1 mm) pest monitor developed automatically functions to collect the insects data in the outdoor habitats for over five months durations and present them in high resolution film images for further communication to the relevant agencies through wireless communications including smart phones and PC’s.

Once the automatic device is in full operation in the field, the current method of manually collecting biological data will be replaced with the newly developed unmanned monitoring system.

The unmanned pest monitoring technology represents one of the core elements in the development of the ICT- and IoT-based smart farm agriculture as part of the 4^th industrial revolutionary advances, as the research team predicted.

Professor Kim in charge of the research project said it would be necessary to develop not only a climate change-dependent pest monitoring system, but also for agricultural pest control through the artificial intelligence diagnosis of the harmful insects.

Demonstration of the monitoring system performance will be staged (13:00, August 14) at the Climate Change and Agriculture Institute (Odeung-dong, Jeju City) by the research staff including JNU Professors and their collaborators (Professor Choi Kyeong San and Dr. Ahn Jung Joon).