Table 7 Comparison between Cropviz and the PA technology solutions included in the summary.
From: A precision agriculture solution for water stress estimation in Hass avocado farms in Colombia
Features | Cropviz | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
On-site challenges analysis | ✓ | x | x | x | x |
On-site challenges prioritization with SMF | ✓ | x | x | x | x |
Farmer-centered approach | ✓ | x | x | x | x |
Field evaluation and iterations | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Improved cost–benefit equation for the SMF | ✓ | x | x | x | x |
Improved up-front costs | ✓ | x | x | x | x |
Improved management, operation and maintenance costs | ✓ | x | x | x | x |
Works without Internet connection at the farm | ✓ | x | x | ✓ | x |
Works without electricity at the farm | ✓ | x | x | ✓ | x |
Simplified installation | ✓ | x | x | ✓ | x |
Simplified maintenance | x | x | x | ✓ | x |
Easy to adapt to technology evolution | ✓ | x | ✓ | ✓ | x |
Simplified functionality | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Device-enabled | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Simplified digital interface | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Simplified customer-interface | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Works without previous analysis or studies at the farm | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Flexibility on aggregating other functionalities or variables | ✓ | x | x | x | x |
Alerts provision | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Remote control possibility | x | x | x | x | x |
Supporting several farms | ✓ | x | x | ✓ | ✓ |
Easy to scale | ✓ | x | x | ✓ | x |
Historical data visualization and analysis | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Extension to other crops | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Easy and automatic georeferentiation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Adequate latency | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Close to real-time monitoring at the farm | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
User friendly | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Different users with different profiles and authorizations | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Adaptability to integrate new analysis or research | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Accuracy in data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Meeting spatial information quality | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Meeting required spatial resolution | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Current data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
