Smart farming refers to the cutting-edge method of protected cultivation that assists human agricultural activities and supports crops cultivation with precise or measured environmental conditions. There are five important factors in smart farms: steel structures; automation; measurement; operation; and telecommunication. We will provide answers on the advantages these technologies bring to smart farms, based on the aforementioned five factors.
Steel pipes
PRODUCT
Smart farm facilities Pipes for agricultural application
Advantages of smart farms
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Smart farm
In a nutshell, a smart farm refers to a farm that can adequately maintain and manage the growing environment of plants and livestock remotely and automatically by mechanizing or incorporating ICT into vinyl or glass greenhouses. The area dedicated to smart farming is showing a continuous increase.
02
Facility
A smart farm automatically measures the climate conditions of the facility such as external and internal temperature, humidity, and sunlight and then start or stop ventilation as needed. It also automatically adjusts heating and colling facilities to a designated setting.
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Precise measurement
In addition to using the precise measurement, to adjust temperature, humidity, and sunlight, a smart farm gauges soil moisture and nutrient levels and automatically provides irrigation and nutrients. It also monitors crop growth conditions and applies pesticides, or it can alert farmers of potential issues and provide warnings and helpful advice. As such, smart farms can be of great help for agricultural activities.
04
Farmers
can be notified about comprehensive aspects such as overall status of the facility and the condition of crops, regardless of where they are. This allows them to adjust and control the entire facility with their mobile phones, even while taking a break.
05
Agricultural managers
With these helpful innovations, smart farms can significantly assist the agricultural activities of agricultural managers. By adopting the smart farm system, farm managers can enjoy more relaxed lifestyles of agricultural activities, and cultivate crops based on data rather than experience. Enabling a more relaxed life for smart farm users is one of the significant advantages.
Especially, in the smart farm agricultural materials and products industry, the specialized term of “Agriculture materials industry” is used for agricultural materials and products industry. If you intend to use a steel agricultural materials and products company, your first choice should be ‘Shinsung Steel Agriculture Material Company’.
Interest in stable food production has heightened as fears over food scarcity become a reality even before the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. Climate change driven by global warming has emerged as an undeniable future challenge, and these changes have been compounded by the disruption to the global food supply chain after the outbreak of COVID-19. All of these factors are contributing to anxiety over the stable resource supply.
Similar situations are unfolding in Korea. The urgency to control domestic food management has been evident in rising food prices. Despite a gradual increase in food demand caused by global population growth, land and available labor supply are decreasing, resulting in lowering productivity. This highlights the necessity of leveraging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), bigdata, autonomous driving, etc., to overcome these gaps.
These agricultural conditions inevitably encourage innovation in the agricultural sector. One of the most promising areas of innovation is the creation of smart farms based on mechanized facilities, automation and ICT. It is noteworthy that smart farms are implemented with various sensors and digital equipment based on data about crop development and environmental conditions This is a new type of value-added business that combines agriculture and ICT.
For these reasons, smart farms have been highly praised as a future growth engine for the economy – both for people working in the agricultural sector as consumers and ICT workers as technology provider. In particular, the agricultural technology industry (Agri-tech) in Korea deserves to receive serious attention because there is so much potential for development.
Smart farm facilities in the future shall be mechanized and automated.
There are two ways to construct facilities: glass greenhouses and vinyl greenhouses. However, the initial cost for glass greenhouses is astronomical compared to vinyl greenhouses. Therefore, the agricultural environment needed in the future is inevitably driving innovation today.
Enlargement, automation of vinyl greenhouse facilities, and creation of smart farms based on ICT are the most promising parts of the agricultural sector.
Therefore, there is a pressing need for the automation of smart farms that will increase both production and income, the hope of every farmer, even though it seems distant.
Vinyl greenhouses can be a solution to improve the ability of those with small-sized farms to access smart farms, as they would otherwise be prohibitive because of expensive initial capital investment, etc. Government policy support is thus absolutely necessary to achieve this.
Especially in Korea, companies such as POSCO and Hyundai Steel supply outstanding steel products. As various types of materials for vinyl house-type smart farm facilities have been developed for more than 40 years, steel products are supplied in a stable way.
Ultimately, we firmly believe that smart farms need to be more actively encouraged to increase farmers’ incomes by addressing issues such as decreasing rural populations, aging, uncertainly of production caused by climate change – and by enhancing the production of high-quality agricultural products and increasing output.
Production item
- Steel pipes for farms (GI/PosMAC), Structural steel pipes (GI/CR/PO/HR)
Use
- For verandas, coating, warehouses (tent structures), building materials (system scaffolding, system support), loading components,
Type
- Square pipe: 15×15 / 16×16 / 18×18 / 20×20 / 10×30 / 25×25 / 30×30 / 40×34 / 40×40 / 50×50 / 60×60
- Round pipe: 15.9, 19.1, 19.7, 22.2, 25.4, 31.8, 38.1, 42.2, 48.1, 48.6, 50.8, 59.9, 60.5, 70.0, 76.3
- Thickness: 0.5t~4.0t
Person in charge
- Vice-president, Kim Kuk-il
- M. 010-8738-6543
