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National Smart Pest Control

Enabling farmers to identify pests more quickly and keep aware of pest sightings & warnings from farms nearby. Connected sensors will feed data into a central dashboard that will serve as a resource for all farmers and a "first line of defense"

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Farmers

Key benefits

Increased production efficiency

by reducing manual inspections

Higher yield through damage prevention

enabled by earlier pest detection with 24/7 monitoring & centrally coordinated warnings

Increased efficiency in pest detection & response management

enabled by central monitoring on a national scale

Related personas

Farmer

Khalid

Age

42
Job Title

Agribusiness consumer
Country

About Khalid

Khalid produces tomatoes, potatoes, cucumbers & eggplant. 17% of vegetables consumed in Qatar are sourced locally and he thinks that the local market size will be on the rise in the near future. Soil in Qatar may not be very fertile, and the water quality is not always great, but as agricultural technologies keep improving, there is no reason for Khalid’s business not to grow.

Income Level

50% Income Level

Tech Knowledge

90% Tech Knowledge

User Journey

1

In order to control the pest smartly, Khalid installs local pest control monitoring device on his farm and connects it to the national smart pest control server
2

Khalid flies the device with cameras and machine vision technology around the farm. He checks the pest control dashboard to view and analyze pictures and motion tracking data sent back by the device
3

He receives heatmaps with pest info around his farm’s location generated by national smart pest control server
4

He receives warnings via app notifications and SMS of upcoming pests that could effect his area
5

With the smart pest control device, he is able to better decide on potential actions and feels more reassured about pest control

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Potential Service Features

Automated data upload
Pest Control Recommendations
Pest Analysis

Localized & National Alerts
National Visibility of Pest Issues

Implementation Analysis

IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE

progress 80%

Short
Medium
Long

TECHNOLOGY COMMERCIAL VIABILITY

progress 50%

Currently Viable
Viable in Short Term
Viable in Long Term

REGULATORY CONDUCIVENESS

progress 80%

Favorable
Challenging
Complex

INVESTMENT REQUIREMENTS

progress 80%

Small
Medium
Large

Key Implementation Consideration

Vendor Selection Due diligence to identify ones with high competence in UI/UX, pest related aggrotech, big data analytics, and advanced image processing

Discovery Phase Research phase to identify existing APIs that can be built on, local pest specifies & locations, and enablers for use case development

Development Agile process in collaboration with farmers & MME to produce an app for farmers and a central platform for MME for national monitoring

Testing & Monitoring UX testing to optimize app layout for farmers’ ease, and dashboard features as per MME’s feedback