Vietnam ’s FPT Corporation and Fujitsu Limited of Japan announced inHanoi on October 28 that they will cooperate in running a trialtest of Fujitsu’s food and agricultural cloud service - the Akisai Cloud- in the country.
The companies said that the aimof the partnership is to support restructuring in the agriculturallsector so as to make Vietnam a world-class agricultural producerbased on innovative technologies.
Under theagreement, Fujitsu and FPT will carry out a one-year trial project from2015 to 2016, with the former providing cloud services, equipment, andexpertise. As a leading ICT company in Vietnam , FPT will facilitatethe spread of information technology in the country’s agriculturalsector.
Fujitsu will deploy a greenhouse IT solution in Hanoito cultivate crops during the trial period. The greenhouse willdemonstrate Fujitsu’s agricultural technology to partners and governmentauthorities in Vietnam and Japan .
Fujitsuwill monitor and control conditions remotely from its data centres viathe Internet, opening or closing the plant’s skylight and adjustingtemperatures as needed.
It will first controlconditions from Japan , then, as it gathers more data on climate andsoil, transfer the work to local data centres in and around Vietnam .
Through the trial, the two companies want toimprove the understanding and the ability to commercialise technologysolutions for the Vietnamese agricultural sector.
Atthe launch ceremony, FPT Chairman Truong Gia Binh emphasised that hiscompany is not investing directly in farming, but in finding andproviding IT applications to help build a smart agricultural sector.
Akisai, a service of the Fujitsu Intelligent Society Solution, wasofficially launched in 2012 to promote the use of ICT innovations in theagricultural sector, helping optimise the cultivation process for eachcrop variety and arable area. This is expected to help stabilise yieldsand improve product quality.-VNA
The companies said that the aimof the partnership is to support restructuring in the agriculturallsector so as to make Vietnam a world-class agricultural producerbased on innovative technologies.
Under theagreement, Fujitsu and FPT will carry out a one-year trial project from2015 to 2016, with the former providing cloud services, equipment, andexpertise. As a leading ICT company in Vietnam , FPT will facilitatethe spread of information technology in the country’s agriculturalsector.
Fujitsu will deploy a greenhouse IT solution in Hanoito cultivate crops during the trial period. The greenhouse willdemonstrate Fujitsu’s agricultural technology to partners and governmentauthorities in Vietnam and Japan .
Fujitsuwill monitor and control conditions remotely from its data centres viathe Internet, opening or closing the plant’s skylight and adjustingtemperatures as needed.
It will first controlconditions from Japan , then, as it gathers more data on climate andsoil, transfer the work to local data centres in and around Vietnam .
Through the trial, the two companies want toimprove the understanding and the ability to commercialise technologysolutions for the Vietnamese agricultural sector.
Atthe launch ceremony, FPT Chairman Truong Gia Binh emphasised that hiscompany is not investing directly in farming, but in finding andproviding IT applications to help build a smart agricultural sector.
Akisai, a service of the Fujitsu Intelligent Society Solution, wasofficially launched in 2012 to promote the use of ICT innovations in theagricultural sector, helping optimise the cultivation process for eachcrop variety and arable area. This is expected to help stabilise yieldsand improve product quality.-VNA
