FARMACY

DEMO VIDEO

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Product Spec
3. Wireframes
4. Schema

Overview

Description

Farmacy provides farmers with personalized plans on when to plant, fertilize, and irrigate based on weather and trend data to optimal product yields

App Evaluation

• Category: Agriculture
• Mobile: Farmacy helps farmers with chat and video call (optional) feature to connect with agriculture experts, weather API and push notifications feature to reminder when to plant, fertilize, and irrigate. These features make mobile app more than website
• Story: Given insightful data, personalized plans on when to plant, fertilize, and irrigate, Farmacy can help increase the farmer’s yield
• Market: Farmacy targets on farmers who need help with their crop plan
• Habit: Farmers use Farmacy on a daily basis to check on the weather API along with reminders on when to plant, fertilize, and irrigate
• Scope: See technical challenge bellow

Technical Challenge

• Implement an analytics algorithm using data mining techniques to suggest farmer when to plant, fertilize, and irrigate. To accomplish it, I will utilize weather, soil and other data specific to the area.
• Implement calendar on when to plant/fertilize/irrigate and allow farmers to view schedule on the specific day. This calendar will be modified synchronously per change of crops addition/removal
• Implement and push reminder notifications on when to plant/fertilize/irrigate based on calendar and tips of a day!
• Implement chat feature allowing farmers to connect with experts in the real time
• Implement crop recommendation and crop image classification

Features

• Implemented user authentication/persistence and ask for data access with Facebook SDK for iOS; Linked PFUser (Parse User) with Facebook account
• Integrated Weather API and Growing Degree Days (GDD) API (used to estimate the growth and development of plants and insects during the growing season)
• Implemented APIs with APIManager (a subclass of AFHTTPSessionManager) to fetch API more efficiently and reusable
• Implemented and managed database with Parse Server
• Implemented farmers can add/remove from their favorite crops
• Implemented a Calendar feature using the FSCalendar Library - a fully customizable iOS calendar library, allowing farmers to view the schedule on the specific day. This calendar is modified synchronously per change of crops addition/removal
• Implemented once a task be done in calendar, the crop's progress and the next schedule will be updated accordingly.
• Implemented register and push Reminder notifications feature to notify farmers when to plant, fertilize and irrigate based on calendar
• Implemented real-time chat for farmers and experts using Parse Live Query, decreasing response time, high network and server usage rather than traditional queries.
• Implemented loading data animation with JHUD Library - a full screen of the HUD when loading the data.
• Implemented move-up animation for UITableViewCell
• Implemented Swipe gesture using SwipeTabController Library, polishing UI
• Implemented pop-up screen using STPopup Library, polishing UI
• Implemented infinite scrolling
• Implemented Time Series Prediction with AR and ARIMA models to predict temperature used to identify crop schedules. Improved results by implementing prediction with Meta AI’s neuralprophet
• Implemented an iterative dynamic programming algorithm to find the maximum sum of contiguous growing degree days, suggesting plant and harvest date
• Implemented mathematical model to find irrigation interval days for each crop to suggest irrigation schedule
• Implemented recommendation system based on time-series data using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) in python to recommend fertilize schedule for each crop
• Implemented crop recommendation to provide farmers with top 5 crops they should plant according to their soil type and weather data at their farm
• Implemented crop image classification with CoreML MobileNetV2 to tells farmers the name of crop in the given photo
• Integrated Google Maps SDK

Product Spec

1. User Stories (Required and Optional)

Required Must-have Stories

• Farmer can log in/sign up and log out using Facebook SDK for iOS
• Farmer can add/delete crops to/from grow to My Crops list
• Farmer can view calendar to know when to plant, fertilize, and irrigate
• Farmer can view their crops' progress
• Farmer can chat with agriculture experts
• Farmer can view weather forecast
• Farmer can be notified the schedule via notifications

Optional Nice-to-have Stories

• Farmer can view Farmacy's recommendations on the best crops to grow based on their market, geographic, and environmental patterns
• Based on recommendations, Farmers can choose which crops to grow or remove
• Farmer can view data visualization of weather data, data oncrop variation datasets, soil data projections, market, geographic, and environmental patterns
• Farmer can make a video call with agriculture experts
• Farmer can view knowledge hub with list of disease and treatments

2. Screen Archetypes

• Login Screen
  • User can login
• Registration Screen
  • User can create a new account
• Dashboard (Nice-to-have)
  • User can view data visualation on data oncrop variation datasets, soil data projections, market, geographic, and environmental patterns
• Weather Forecast
  • User can view weather forecast
• Recommendations (Nice-to-have)
  • User can view recommendations on crops to grow
• Calendar
  • User can view schedule when to plant, fertilize, and irrigate crops
• My Crops
  • User can view their choosen crops' progress.

3. Navigation

Tab Navigation (Tab to Screen)

• My Crops
• Calendar
• Weather Forecast
• Dashboard (Nice-to-have)

Flow Navigation (Screen to Screen)

• Login Screen

  => My crops Screen

• Register Screen

  => Recommendation Screen (Nice-to-have)

• Recommendation Screen (Nice-to-have)

  => My Crops Screen (when the adding all crops to list clicked)

  => Dashboard (when the insightful icon is clicked)

• Calendar Screen

  => None

• Weather Forecast Screen

  => Calendar Screen (when calendar icon is clicked)

• My Crops Screen

  => Detail Crop Screen (when select specific crop cell)

  => Calendar Screen (when calendar icon is clicked)

Wireframes

Schema

Models: Crops

Property	Type	Description
objectId	String	unique id for the crop
plantedAt	DateTime	date when crop is planted
image	Image	image of the crop
name	String	string name of the crop
schedule	File	file schedule on when to plant, fertilize, and irrigate
progress	Number	percentage shows progress until it is harvested

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Networking

• Weather Forecast Screen
  • (READ/GET) Query weather forecast in the next 10 days
• Calendar Screen
  • (READ/GET) Query combination of schedule of chosen crops
  • (CREATE/POST) Create a new tick "Done" for specific task
• My Crops Screen
  • (CREATE/POST) Create a new crop from Recommendation Screen to My Crops
  • (Delete) Delete the crop from My Crops
  • (READ/GET) Query information on each crop
• Recommendation (Nice-to-have)
  • (READ/GET) Query top recommendations from analyzing data on weather, soil,..