Ayni is an Open Source Irrigation Control System, which has been developed to ease the access of small farmers to cutting edge technology. It allows to sense, monitor, present and label the farming production data in an easy fashion.
For full instructions, visit the Ayni Wiki.
For this project we used I2T Standard, IOTA Streams Framework, and ESP-IDF Standard.
The environmental cost of our logistics, pesticides and plastic pollution, among others, are accelerating the shift of water cycles around the globe. As a result, rain patterns are changing at accelerated rates, leading us to unknown scenarios. This fact highlights the urgency of a new type of distributed agriculture with low environmental footprint and enhanced use of allocated resources, by new designs and ongoing analysis of production data.
In addition, Aquaponics and Hydroponics are proven techniques that has been picking up in adoption recently due to its low environmental footprint, inherent efficiencies, and healthier products.
Ayni means “to help” in quechua; our project aims to help small farmers to discover the benefits Hydroponics and Aquaponics by developing an automated system integrated with IOTA Tangle.
Ayni, thanks to IOTA, could be adapted to establish a distributed farming market place; in where, farmers can sell and by production and demand data of other local producers to optimize their production and anticipate to market trends before these happen, and customers can buy local produced goods through friction-less micro-payments and verify the quality by accessing production data, and sell consumption data, without intermediaries.
Develop Ayni App further, and adding more sensors for different farming scenarios.
We started with a Hydroponic approach, but in the future, we will prioritize for an Aquaponic System. In its simplest form, aquaponics replicates the nature by growing fish and vegetables providing huge efficiencies related to land and water use, removing the need of fertilizers, pesticides, and antibiotics. An aquaponic system creates a symbiotic relationship between all the organisms within the system and is always aiming to reach its homeostasis.
The Ayni App allows farmers to consolidate production data in the IOTA tangle to generate QR certificate labels that can be attached to the product package.
