Tomato Care 5.0: An Intelligent Edge-AI and Robotics Framework for Color-Sensitive Leaf Analysis and Autonomous Input Application in Precision Agriculture

Tomato Care 5.0 is an advanced precision agriculture framework that integrates Edge Artificial Intelligence (Edge-AI) and robotics to optimize crop health management and resource management in smart tomato farms. The system’s goal is to receive input from AI-oriented processing of image data at the Edge, to perform real-time color-aware diagnostics of leaf conditions. Real-time, color-aware diagnostics in agriculture allows for timely responses for managing optimal nutrient element concentrations in the crops, and managing on-plant diseases, which improve crops overall health. In addition to Leaf Condition diagnostics, the Tomato Care framework incorporates robotics and autonomous mobility to perform targeted spraying of fertilizers or pesticides, reducing chemical use and environmental impact. The combination of color aware diagnostics and autonomous actuation will provide a way to manage accurate timing and localize the interventions, which will collectively improve plant health and efficiency of resource use, as well as the overall quality of yield. Tomato Care 5.0 is a scalable and affordable solution for managing processes for contemporary management of agricultural crops, especially in regions with limited access to centralized computing. Tomato Care 5.0 operates with sensor fusion, intelligent decision-making, and changing surroundings and evolve as the plant grows. This system has a modular approach that enables connectivity with many IoT devices so farmers can continuously monitor the temperature, soil moisture, and humidity. This improves the contextual accuracy of detecting disease and when to spray. Since Tomato Care 5.0 operates at the edge, there is little latency, so there is no dependence on the cloud, and it enhances data privacy. This solution assists farmers in providing actionable items while practicing environmentally-friendly farming through maximizing sustainability and lowering costs through practices that provide data-driven logical decisions. Tomato Care 5.0 represents an advancement in an Agri tech solution within the merger of AI, robotics, and precision agriculture and sets new standards for the new paradigm of smart farming through autonomous crop management. Tomato Care 5.0 represents a new Edge-AI and robotics-based framework for precision agriculture with the specificity of detecting leaf disease through color sensitive and real time vision and autonomous application of resources for proper and timely interventions, including but not limited to automated spraying of fertilizer, irrigation activated by soil moisture and sowing seeds. Tomato Care 5.0 leverage’s AI based on-device processing, autonomous mobility, and multi-modal sensor fusion to enable automated & real-time applications; no cloud processing and no human action - only the right things done at the right time. This fundamentally differs from the traditional means for precision agriculture since it minimizes latency on time, improves efficacy on purpose and mode of application, and supports sustainable crop management and production and particularly tomato crop cultivation.