Bevap, located in João Pinheiro, has more than 30 thousand hectares of planted area. Due to natural fermentation the quality of the sugar cane starts to decline immediately after harvesting and efficient transport is therefore key.
yard of the mill). Artificial intelligence turbines the system, which has its transportation opti- mised by performing automatic dispatches of trucks to point of harvest, in the same way that eliminates problems of lack or excess of trucks at the point of harvest.
Digital certificate Before, a supervisor registered the harvest per truck manually. Any mistake could cause huge losses to the plant. So Bevap implemented the digital cane certificate, retiring the paper deliv- ery note. All information is generated auto- matically by on-board computers. The location data of farm, pivot and field, equipment and operators involved in harvesting, as well as the respective operations (notes) are automatically transmitted to the balance as soon as the transport truck enters for weighing. Also a ve- hicle telemetry system was implemented. This allows the automotive maintenance sector on- line monitoring of the fleets and provides telemetry data (idle motor, oil pressure, engine temperature, state of transport-belts, etc.).
These data are captured from the equipment and transmitted to the automotive workshop monitoring screen.
Gains in efficiency By bringing AI and IoT to the process of har- vesting, transshipping and transport, Bevap gained efficiency and productivity. It required organisational change from the ground up, leveraging a combination of technology,
people, and processes. Expertise in gathering, cleaning, integrating and analysing huge amounts of data was developed. Important was understanding that this was not just about IoT data alone, but about the power of combining sensor data with other sources like enterprise data, third-party data and open public data (e.g. weather). The efficiency of the operation increased by 8%, or € 150 million.
Sugar production under pressure
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Brazil was worth US $ 2,056 billion in 2017. Agricul- ture and agribusiness contributed 23.5%, ac- cording to an estimate by CNA, a farm lobby. In 2018 the GDP grew 1,1%. However, the contribution of the agribusiness grew only 0,1% and sugar cane had a negative growth of 2%. In the case of sugar cane, the estimat- ed reduction in sales is a reflection of the fall in prices (-10.6%) and production (-2.8%) in
2018. According to the Ministry of Agricul- ture, this harvest presented the second con- secutive decrease of area, which can be at- tributed to the return of leased land and preference for cultivation of crops with great- er profitability. In addition, sugar cane planta- tions have been showing a reduction in pro- ductivity due to the evolution of mechanised harvesting. The decline in prices is especially related to the devaluation of sugar.
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