On October 13 the meeting with representatives of agricultural enterprises in the Novosibirsk Region was held at 91视频. Alexey Okunev, Director of the Higher College of Informatics and Director of the Lavrentiev Supercomputing Center and Roman Yarovoy, IT Director of Expasoft LLC, presented their developments in the field of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and video analytics. They can be implemented in production to optimize processes such as sorting products, selecting defective goods, monitoring compliance with safety regulations, working with documents for new employees, identifying violators of the boundaries of protected areas, and many others.
Mikhail Fedoruk, NSU Rector and Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences opened the meeting,
The primary mission of the University during its creation was to train personnel for science, primarily for the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. And now, of course, we continue to fulfill this mission. However, we are increasingly looking at other spheres such as engineering training and technology entrepreneurship. We are very actively involved in the activities of the Siberian Biotechnology Scientific Educational Center in relation to agrobiotechnologies. We are interested in cooperation with industrial partners, joint projects, and our first proposal focuses on agricultural technologies. We are recruiting people who promote artificial intelligence so work will continue in this direction and everything will be built.
The NSU Intellectual Club meeting was also attended by representatives of local authorities. They spoke about existing industry objectives and how scientists can help address them. In crop production there is interest in a search for specific technologies for spraying and fertilizing plants and the development of a system of differentiated sowing. In relation to animal husbandry, they want to pursue the use of mathematical modeling methods to create their own breeds of livestock and develop a domestic solution for smart greenhouses. Finally, they are interested in agricultural machinery and the refinement of the "Smart Eye" complex to build an optimal route and transmit appropriate commands to perform maneuvers.
Andrey Shindelov, Novosibirsk Region Deputy Minister of Agriculture, commented,
When you offer software products and we put them in the onboard network of a combine, it will really pay off. Your knowledge of mathematical modeling, mathematical calculus, and physical knowledge of the process will be useful when dealing with our technological understanding of certain processes. In simple terms, we understand how the soil should be cultivated, what should happen to it, but we cannot describe it mathematically in order to build a more efficient model.
Meeting participants were very interested in the developments of Novosibirsk scientists and technology entrepreneurs. They discussed the possibility of conducting joint R&D, optimizing technologies that are already being used in production, and adapting solutions to specific industry tasks. University representatives also proposed a possible approach to interaction with companies in which part of the costs are covered by grants received by NSU for the development of technologies and their maintenance at a particular production facility. This gives agricultural producers additional quality guarantees and minimizes the cost of introducing innovative technologies into business processes.
