Decision support for plant protection with use of mobile devices

摘要

Development of hardware and software technologies in last years is more and more adapted by agricultural machinery, also sprayers.New technique permits easy, sensible and exact app-lication of different biologically active substances in liquid phase by sprayers (fertilizers, Pes-ticides, bio regulators and mixes of them).Board computers, which are used by sprayers, are very advanced now.Such a new equipment is very efficient, but expensive and economically available only for big areas.In agricultural practice majority of farmers is using about 6 to 15 years old sprayers.Predominant sprayers used in Poland are not equipped with any kind of help within supporting decision.In the next few years the mobile communication technology (mobile phones, palmtops,GPSs, PCs) will continue to be very popular and more affordable for everyone.Almost every mobile devices can run the software which will help in making the correct decision instantly at work.With most popular devices that farmers already have, it is possible to create a decision support for sprayer.Our goal is to provide such an application for mobile devices.