Smart Electronic Traps enable remote pest monitoring

Jacto Next, Jacto's specialized agriculture 4.0 services area, presents electronic traps for remote pest monitoring to the market. The new feature is available through the Intelligent Integrated Pest Monitoring (MIIP) module, present on the EKOS platform.

Fabio Torres, business manager at Jacto Next, explains that smart electronic traps for attracting and capturing pests work in a similar way to conventional traps, but with embedded technology that makes it possible to take programmed photos of the adhesive floor, which contains the captured insects. Images are sent via 4G connection to the EKOS platform, along with other important information, such as temperature and humidity.

“Just like conventional traps, smart traps have a specific pheromone for each pest and an adhesive floor. However, with 4G photo sending technology programmed to the EKOS | MIIP, it is possible to remotely monitor the insect population on a daily basis, which allows faster and more assertive decisions to control crop pests, reducing scheduled applications”, comments Torres.

Own algorithms and integration with the EKOS platform

The use of proprietary algorithms is a differentiator that guarantees reliability and robustness in identifying and counting insects. These algorithms use the ActiveLearning or Active Learning and are constantly evaluating and improving accuracy in identifying pests.

“The Artificial Intelligence architecture was carefully implemented to ensure the identification of different pests (primary and secondary) in the same trap, for different scenarios”, explains the manager.

Through the Intelligent Integrated Pest Monitoring (MIIP) module, it is possible to register the plots that will be monitored, select the pests you want to monitor and even create installation and maintenance missions for electronic and conventional traps, in addition to the “intelligent integrated pest monitoring missions”. scouting”, which allow you to take photos of the pests' adhesive floor with your cell phone, in the case of conventional traps where this function is not automated.

In this way, the “missions of scouting” (recognition) integrate conventional traps with the EKOS platform, that is, after manually collecting the photos, the insects are identified in the same way as in the electronic trap.

Monitoring maps and pest catalog

Through the EKOS platform | MIIP allows you to monitor and view, on the monitoring screen, all the missions registered in the field, the infestation intensity maps (heat map) according to the field, in addition to the map with all the traps installed. On this screen, each trap takes on a color according to pre-registered alert, control and economic damage levels, which allows an overview of the insect population and the fluctuations that may be occurring.

It is also possible to access the pest catalog on the platform, which contains relevant information about the main symptoms caused by insects on plants, as well as specific morphological characteristics of each pest. This information is fundamental and helps the producer in the correct choice of pests to monitor.

“Agriculture has been undergoing a major digital transformation in order to achieve production with greater productivity and more sustainable from an economic and environmental point of view. To achieve this, the use of online and integrated tools is essential”, summarizes Torres.