Platform server and method for providing disease and pest treatment recipes

A system for providing disease and pest treatment recipes for a crop at a cultivation site, the system comprising:

• a database storing
• information on a plurality of disease or pest that occur on the crop and a plurality of previously-used recipes, each of which was previously used to cure at least one of the plurality of disease or pest in a variety of cultivation environments, wherein each of the plurality of previously-used recipes includes at least one of a manufacturer, a brand name, a dilution rate, a dosage amount, and a dosage period of a chemical or fertilizer,
• correlation information between the plurality of previously-used recipes and information on the variety of cultivation environments;
• an information collector configured to receive an image of a crop and information on cultivation environment of the cultivation site;
• wherein the information collector includes a camera installed at the cultivation site, and the camera is configured to capture the image of the crop including images of a front and rear surfaces of a leaf of the crop and a stalk of the crop;
• an image analyzer configured to identify a current disease or pest from among the plurality of disease or pest, currently occurring on the crop, based on the image of the crop;
• a recipe recommender configured to
• perform a searching function to search a candidate list of two or more treatment recipes which cure the identified current disease or pest from among the previously-used treatment recipes previously used in a similar cultivation environment to the cultivation environment of the cultivation site,
• perform a calculation function to calculate a suitability rating score of each of the candidate list of the two or more treatment recipes using similarity comparison between the received information on the cultivation environment of the cultivation site and the stored information on the variety of cultivation environments, the correlation information, cure rate of each of the candidate list of the two or more treatment recipes, and contagion speed of the identified current disease or pest, and
• provide a name of the identified current disease or pest, the candidate list of the two or more treatment recipes along with corresponding suitability rating scores of the candidate list of the two or more treatment recipes to a user;
• a problem controller configured to apply, to the crop, a user-selected treatment recipe selected by the user from among the candidate list of the two or more treatment recipes provided to the user;
• a crop monitor configured to periodically receive images of the crop to which the user-selected treatment recipe selected by the user from among the candidate list of the two or more treatment recipes is being applied;
• and
• a recipe evaluator configured to
• derive a treatment result in relation to application of the user-selected treatment recipe to the crop, by way of a time series analysis of the images of the crop, and
• evaluate and update a suitability rating score of the user-selected treatment recipe from among the candidate list of the two or more treatment recipes based on the derived treatment result and the information on the cultivation environment of the crop,
• wherein, after the recipe evaluator updates a suitability rating score of the user-selected treatment recipe, the recipe recommender performs the searching function and the calculation function again, and the display displays the candidate list of the two or more treatment recipes along with corresponding updated suitability rating scores,
• wherein the information on the cultivation environment includes at least one of a number of days since sowing, a designation regarding soil cultivation or water cultivation, an acidity (pH) of a soil, a humidity of a soil, a composition of a culture solution, a concentration of a culture solution, an acidity (pH) of a culture solution, a luminous flux, an illuminance, an optical wavelength, a temperature of an atmosphere, a humidity of an atmosphere, and a ventilated air volume of the cultivation site.

A method for providing disease and pest treatment recipes for a crop at a cultivation site performed by a system, the system comprising a database storing (i) information on a plurality of disease or pest that occur on the crop and a plurality of previously-used recipes, each of which was previously used to cure at least one of the plurality of disease or pest in a variety of cultivation environments, wherein each of the plurality of previously-used recipes includes at least one of a manufacturer, a brand name, a dilution rate, a dosage amount, and a dosage period of a chemical or fertilizer;

• (ii) correlation information between the plurality of previously-used recipes and information on the variety of cultivation environments, the method comprising:
• receiving by an information collector an image of a crop and information on cultivation environment of the cultivation site, wherein the information collector includes a camera installed at the cultivation site, and the image of the crop includes images of a front and rear surfaces of a leaf of the crop and a stalk of the crop captured by the camera;
• and
• identifying by an image analyzer a current disease or pest from among the plurality of disease or pest, currently occurring on the crop, based on the image of the crop;
• searching, by a recipe recommender a candidate list of two or more treatment recipes which cure the identified current disease or pest from among the previously-used treatment recipes previously used in a similar cultivation environment to the cultivation environment of the cultivation site,
• calculating, by the recipe recommender, a suitability rating score of each of the candidate list of the two or more treatment recipes using similarity comparison between the received information on the cultivation environment of the cultivation site and the stored information on the variety of cultivation environments, the correlation information, cure rate of each of the candidate list of the two or more treatment recipes, and contagion speed of the identified current disease or pest, and
• displaying, via a display, a name of the identified current disease or pest, the candidate list of the two or more treatment recipes along with corresponding suitability rating scores of the candidate list of the two or more treatment recipes to a user;
• periodically receiving, by a crop monitor, images of the crop to which a user-selected treatment recipe selected by the user from among the candidate list of the two or more treatment recipes is being applied;
• deriving by a recipe evaluator, a treatment result in relation to application of the user-selected treatment recipe to the crop, by way of a time series analysis of the images of the crop;
• and
• evaluating and updating by the recipe evaluator, a suitability rating score of the user-selected treatment recipe from among the candidate list of the two or more treatment recipes based on the derived treatment result and the information on the cultivation environment of the crop,
• wherein, after the updating a suitability rating score of the user-selected treatment recipe, the searching and the calculating are performed again by the recipe recommender, and the candidate list of the two or more treatment recipes along with corresponding updated suitability rating scores are displayed by the display,
• wherein the information on the cultivation environment includes at least one of a number of days since sowing, a designation regarding soil cultivation or water cultivation, an acidity (pH) of a soil, a humidity of a soil, a composition of a culture solution, a concentration of a culture solution, an acidity (pH) of a culture solution, a luminous flux, an illuminance, an optical wavelength, a temperature of an atmosphere, a humidity of an atmosphere, and a ventilated air volume of the cultivation site.