This project aimed to achieve investment visibility for individual investors to track and monitor the

real conditions of their asset on the ground while improving the companys plantation management
by consolidating information in one place.

Scientific Plantation Management

Aerial Mapping: The first step to a good plantation management practice is to have a reliable
inventory of the land and its assets. BioMachines partnered Avetics in providing a baseline
survey service, using drones to map the plantation areas with high resolution photographs and
overlay it with the site plan onto Google Maps. The use of drones produce results much faster
than a ground survey or satellite imaging and is more cost-effective than other forms of aerial
survey for small land area.
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case study agriculture
TEAK & AGARWOOD
Location Suphanburi and Sakon
Nakhon, Thailand
Year 2012
Application Asset Monitoring
Client Category Private Investment and
Plantation Management
Company
Solutions Sentinel Infrastructure,
Sensor Network, Field Work
Management System
Background

The client sells retail investments in the sustainable
forestry and agricultural products sector with
international client base in Singapore, Indonesia,
Malaysia, Indonesia, Middle East and the United
Kingdom.

The main problem on the ground was the lack of
operational visibility and asset transparency, with
unconsolidated and conflicting information sources on
the plantation sites.



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BIOMACHINES CASE STUDY: TEAK & AGARWOOD INVESTMENT

Weather and Soil Monitoring: BioMachines provided a set of automated weather station and soil
monitoring sensors, that is running on a fully solar-powered Sentinel Core.
Mast Surveillance Camera: The Sentinel Infrastructure here includes a remote Pan-Tilt-Zoom
(PTZ) camera installed at 20-meter height overseeing the entire plantation site.

Transparency

The plantations are segmented into plots, where each plot belongs to an individual investors. With
NucleuS, each investor holds an account that grants him access to a live data on the performance
of the plot, including the environmental data and growing condition.

Field Work Management System

The plantation staffs working on site have limited education level and are not generally tech-savvy.
In this case BioMachines played a role in designing a systematic and simple field work
management solution:
Smart Camera Reporting: An Android-based pocket digital camera was used to take picture of
the trunks of the teak trees and synchronises to a cloud database with just one click, supplying
fresh plantation pictures to NucleuS portal for the investors to see.
Workflow Design: An efficient SOP that is intuitive and easy to follow with minimal instruction.
This allows the information collected, for example, the pictures, to follow a consistent format
and sequence that can be automatically sorted by NucleuS software.
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