V.DIG.0017 - Immersive Reality IoT Device Integration Pilot
Australian red meat producers are exploring the integration of Immersive Reality IoT devices on-farm.
| Project start date: | 24 June 2019 |
| Project end date: | 16 August 2021 |
| Publication date: | 29 April 2024 |
| Project status: | Completed |
| Livestock species: | Grain-fed Cattle, Grass-fed Cattle, Sheep, Goat, Lamb |
| Relevant regions: | National, Cold wet, Dry, Mediterranean, Tropical warm season wet, Sub-tropical moist, Sub-tropical sub-humid, Temperate, Temperate sub-humid, Tropical Moist, Tropical wet |
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Summary
Mixed reality is a rapidly evolving technology and has a range of applications, including data visualisation, assisting with tasks and augmenting the real world with relevant information. The focus of this project was to provide a demonstration of an integration of Saab’s existing InDepth™ product with IoT device feeds and map data from the Carwoola property. Carwoola was chosen following deployment of a range of IoT devices. From this demonstration, an understanding of the benefits and limitations of providing this mixed reality visualisation would be determined.
The audience for this demonstration was MLA staff who would then be informed of the mixed reality capability and potential use cases, allowing them to utilise this technology and a digital twin type of capability into the future.
Objectives
The main aims of the project were:
• Integrate the existing InDepth™ product with IoT devices from Carwoola.
• Import map data for Carwoola.
• Provide MLA staff with a demonstration of the mixed reality capability.
Key findings
This project was able to demonstrate that a digital twin of a property can be achieved by leveraging the existing InDepth™ capabilities and undertaking integration to pull specific information into the system. Maps are able to be imported from a range of datasets, allowing users flexibility in determining the best dataset for them and re-use of any existing data they have.
Viewing the data in shared holographic 3D experience does provide different insights for users that a traditional 2D display are unable to provide, even when displaying the data in 3D. InDepth™ also provides a common view of datasets from a range of providers, which are often only available on disparate dashboards provided by each vendor. This alleviates the issue where, if a user wishes to query device data from different vendors, they need to deal with multiple dashboards.
Benefits to industry
Industry will gain insights and understanding of benefits that can be achieved with:
• Creating a single dashboard for a range of IoT devices.
• Using mixed reality to enable collaboration between users.
• Viewing and exploring digital twins of property(s) in 3D.
MLA action
The learnings from the Carwoola Digital demonstration farm project has helped shape the MLA Digital Agriculture business plan. A need has been identified to further test ag-tech which is market ready with producers in real world situations to identify the use cases and value propositions of the solutions beyond the simple demonstration of them. This is guiding the current and future MLA investments in this space.
Future research
Saab recommends that the following areas could be beneficial for future research to provide benefits to member organisations:
• utilisation of mixed reality for remote assistance with maintenance and repairs of equipment
• expanding this project to use a cloud based server and allow collaboration between remote users
• use an integration solution (such as IoT Hub) for providing a single integration point of IoT devices so users and other systems such as InDepth™ only need to query a single source for data.
More information
| Project manager: | Darryl Heidke |
| Contact email: | reports@mla.com.au |
| Primary researcher: | SAAB Australia Pty Ltd |
