Our Plantwave Team Ranked Fifth In The Agricultural Technologies Category In Teknofest 2022 Finals

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The members of PLANTWAVE Team, supervised by Dilek Killi Haworth from the Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Sciences, are Ayşenur Sucu and Dilara Özdil from the Department of Industrial Engineering, Taha Türedi and Mehmet Bal from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Nurhan Yalçın and İlayda Bağcı from the Department of Plant Production and Technologies. Our team succeeded in taking the fifth place in the TEKNOFEST-2022 Finals category, in the category of Agricultural Technologies, with the project “Detection of Existing or Potential Diseases Based on Signals from Plants”. The device, which was developed for the early detection of agricultural diseases and pests, which is one of the most important problems in the field of Food and Agriculture; It has been analyzed that there is a significant difference between the signals received from healthy, newly infected and highly diseased plants, and thanks to this difference, it has become possible to detect diseases and pests at an early stage even in plants that have not yet shown symptoms. Thanks to the mobile application, which determines the parcel to be measured by the farmer according to the characteristics of the plant and the spread strategy of the disease, ease of use is also provided for the fields with large areas. Thus, the areas at risk of disease in the field can be determined simultaneously and warnings are given so that the farmers can take precautions. In the project, which focuses especially on root rot in sugar beet and pests in tomato, R&D studies continue on the development of plant and disease libraries, treatment studies for sick plants, and immunity development for plants that are not yet sick. We congratulate our students and their advisors and wish them continued success.