Vietnam ’s FPT Corporation and Fujitsu Limited of Japan announced in Hanoi on October 28 that they will cooperate in running a trial test of Fujitsu’s food and agricultural cloud service - the Akisai Cloud - in the country.
The companies said that the aim of the partnership is to support restructuring in the agriculturall sector so as to make Vietnam a world-class agricultural producer based on innovative technologies.
Under the agreement, Fujitsu and FPT will carry out a one-year trial project from 2015 to 2016, with the former providing cloud services, equipment, and expertise. As a leading ICT company in Vietnam , FPT will facilitate the spread of information technology in the country’s agricultural sector.
Fujitsu will deploy a greenhouse IT solution in Hanoi to cultivate crops during the trial period. The greenhouse will demonstrate Fujitsu’s agricultural technology to partners and government authorities in Vietnam and Japan .
Fujitsu will monitor and control conditions remotely from its data centres via the Internet, opening or closing the plant’s skylight and adjusting temperatures as needed.
It will first control conditions from Japan , then, as it gathers more data on climate and soil, transfer the work to local data centres in and around Vietnam .
Through the trial, the two companies want to improve the understanding and the ability to commercialise technology solutions for the Vietnamese agricultural sector.
At the launch ceremony, FPT Chairman Truong Gia Binh emphasised that his company is not investing directly in farming, but in finding and providing IT applications to help build a smart agricultural sector.
Akisai, a service of the Fujitsu Intelligent Society Solution, was officially launched in 2012 to promote the use of ICT innovations in the agricultural sector, helping optimise the cultivation process for each crop variety and arable area. This is expected to help stabilise yields and improve product quality.-VNA
The companies said that the aim of the partnership is to support restructuring in the agriculturall sector so as to make Vietnam a world-class agricultural producer based on innovative technologies.
Under the agreement, Fujitsu and FPT will carry out a one-year trial project from 2015 to 2016, with the former providing cloud services, equipment, and expertise. As a leading ICT company in Vietnam , FPT will facilitate the spread of information technology in the country’s agricultural sector.
Fujitsu will deploy a greenhouse IT solution in Hanoi to cultivate crops during the trial period. The greenhouse will demonstrate Fujitsu’s agricultural technology to partners and government authorities in Vietnam and Japan .
Fujitsu will monitor and control conditions remotely from its data centres via the Internet, opening or closing the plant’s skylight and adjusting temperatures as needed.
It will first control conditions from Japan , then, as it gathers more data on climate and soil, transfer the work to local data centres in and around Vietnam .
Through the trial, the two companies want to improve the understanding and the ability to commercialise technology solutions for the Vietnamese agricultural sector.
At the launch ceremony, FPT Chairman Truong Gia Binh emphasised that his company is not investing directly in farming, but in finding and providing IT applications to help build a smart agricultural sector.
Akisai, a service of the Fujitsu Intelligent Society Solution, was officially launched in 2012 to promote the use of ICT innovations in the agricultural sector, helping optimise the cultivation process for each crop variety and arable area. This is expected to help stabilise yields and improve product quality.-VNA
