Development and Evaluation of a Field Environment Digest System for Agricultural Education.

Smart agriculture has assumed increasing importance due to the growing age of farmers and a shortage of farm leaders. In response, it is crucial to provide more opportunities to learn about smart agriculture at agricultural colleges and high schools, where new farmers are trained. In agricultural education, a system is used for managing environmental information, such as temperature and humidity, obtained from sensors installed in the field. However, it is difficult to make effective use of this system due to the time required to detect changes in the field interfering with class time and the problem of oversight. In this study, we proposed a field environment digest system that will help learners by providing the summarized field sensing information, and support them in analyzing the data. In addition, to examine the potential for using field sensing information in agricultural education, we investigated the usefulness of the summarized sensor information and students’ usage of this information. In this paper, we outline the contents of the developed system and the results of the digest evaluation experiments.