Hesham ELbanna Bio ...

Hesham Elbanna is an entrepreneur!. Hesham has a great experience in applying advanced technology in agriculture based on Agriculture 4.0 standards that focus on “building green world by using the best of breed of Science & Technology”.

He has great experiences based on practical applications in new agricultural techniques such as Hydroponics and Aquaponics Systems. Hesham used his experience of advanced technologies such as IoT [Internet of Things] and AI to maximize the use of water resources to grow healthy food in a safe and friendly environment.

Hesham has 16+ years experience in Information Technology systems and successfully spearheaded many projects in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. He got BSc degree from the faculty of agriculture, Cairo University in 2002. And received his Master degree of Science in Information Systems Management from Liverpool University, Faculty of Science and Engineering in 2016. Hesham is certified in designing Aquaponics systems from Aquaponics Institute of Australia “Murray Hallam’s aquaponics design”, ITIL® v3 certified and Oracle Certified OCP and other certifications from IBM, HP and KPMG.

Tech Journey

After Hesham graduation from the faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University in 2002, he got a 6 months scholarship in IT to start his Tech journey experience. He worked in several software leaders such as ITWORX and Oracle, playing different roles as Oracle Developer, Senior operations Engineer, Quality Editor, and Release Management Planner Engineer. And for 8+ years he is an information Systems Consultant in Kuwait Ministry of Finance responsible for designing & supervising the implementation of oracle technologies activities such as Oracle ERP, Identity Management, SOA, EPM & OBIEE …etc.

Agriculture Journey - Smart Farm

A long Journey starts with a dream of a 10 years old child while fishing in the Manial Nile Corniche in Egypt. Hesham spent his childhood fishing and getting the agriculture knowledge like a farmer while managing his father’s farm for many years.

In 2016 when hesham got his master degree, He decided that it was the right time to start my dream, The “Smart Farm”!. He used his tens of years tech experience and farming knowledge to applying Technology into agriculture.

Hesham believes in technology and its role to make life easier, augment the human thought and effort toward a better society, environment, health, economic outcomes. That’s why he starts with the first part of the Smart Bio-Integrated Farm where utilizing sustainable practices for plants, animals, Compost Piles, Aquaponics, Chicken, and More in a ZERO waste system and using IoT technology in Real time Management and Monitoring for all the system units. He used New techniques of Agriculture: Aquaponics system [Agriculture technique for growing plants without soil and it is a combination of aquaculture (raising fish) and Hydroponics] by adding fish into the equation, a natural ecosystem exists, in which fish, plants, and bacteria flourish off each other. The waste from fish and the living bacteria in an aquaponics system delivers all of the nutrients the plants need. And using technology to build an automated and connected environment of sensors to collect data about soil, water, light, humidity, temperature management …etc with real time monitoring from PC or Mobile screen to the end user with the ability to take an action remotely. And by analyzing these data, it can be turned into meaningful insights help in achieving the business goals.

As a part of Social responsibility, Hesham is working on building the first version of “Mini Farm”, a simulation of aquaponics system presents The nitrogen cycle in the mother nature. This model can be used in Educating kids about The Nitrogen Cycle in nature and how it works through aquaponics system. Also for raising the awareness of Organic Agriculture to the kids.

Learn More about Hesham Practical Experiments of Applying IoT in farming and experience of Agriculture 4.0 new techniques Through Projects & Blog Bosts.

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Agriculture 4.0| Building Green World based on Science & Technologies

Agriculture 4.0 – The Dream of Green World

Agriculture 4.0Agriculture Generations from Ancient till Now Since the ancient till 1920, and the world was using the traditional agriculture ways that depends on the moved knowledge between generations through thousands of years. The first generation of agriculture!, [Agriculture 1.0] is the era of Muscles of people in help of animals and using simple tools [...]

Aquaponics: Suatainable Method of raising organic Vegetables and Fish

Aquaponics | Sustainable Method of Raising Organic Vegetables & Fish

Aquaponics SystemAgriculture 4.0 New Techniques: Hydroponics, Aeroponics, Aquaponics Hydroponics, Aquaponics, Aeroponics are examples of Agriculture 4.0 techniques that let farmers use the minimum quantities, ability to grow crops in arid areas and use abundant & clean sources such as the sun and seawater to grow food. Hydroponics is growing plants in an environment where roots [...]

Hydroponics System is the future of Farming on Earth & Mars

Hydroponics:The future of farming on Earth and Mars

Hydroponics SystemThe lack of lands, water and healthy food caused millions of hunger in the world In the traditional ways of growing plants, the soil is one major way that plants get the nutrients they need to grow, along with the sun & water. But after the expansion of using chemical materials in agricultural, the [...]

Hesham Elbanna| An Expert in the new agriculture techniques of Agriculture 4.0

Aquaponics System in Smart GreenHouse

Agriculture 4.0| Bio Integrated farmingObjective Building “Bio Integrated farm” where utilizing sustainable practices for plants, animals, Compost Piles, Aquaponics, Chicken, and More in a ZERO waste system. Full System Components In a smart greenhouse where building units of Aquaponics System, Compost unit, Biological Pesticides unit and Azolla Unit with Real Time Monitoring and Management by IoT [...]

Practical experiment for IoT in green house

IoT in The Smart GreenHouse

Agriculture 4.0| IoT in Monitoring & Managing Green HouseObjective Building a connected environment between all the smart greenhouse units with ability to real time monitoring and controlling remotely through the internet. System Specs: Logical Architecture of IOT [Internet of Things] system consists of 4 Units: Sensors [for measuring PH, ORP, Temperature, DO, EC, Ammonium NH4], [...]

Agriculture 4.0 Technologies that change the future of Agriculture

Five Main Technologies Create the Future of Agriculture

Drones, IoT, Robotics, Data Analytics & AI, and Chat-Bot are Technologies change the Agriculture Today and in the Future. Agriculture sector like other sectors is affected by the industrial revolutions. And the penetration of technologies in important sectors like agriculture would lead to great improvements and solve global problems of world climate changes, water waste, [...]

Four main Features of IoT in green House

4 Main Features of IoT Application in Greenhouse

IoT in Green House "All Season Garden" Greenhouse farming is "all season garden" method used to enhance the yield of fruits, vegetables, crops... etc, by controlling and optimizing environmental factors that affect crops like temperature, ventilation, light exposure, and more. These can be in different structures range of sizes from small sheds to industrial-sized buildings [...]

How can we digitalize the Agricultural Advisory/ Extension

Who is Responsible for Digitalizing Agriculture Extension?

Digitalizing "Agricultural Extension" or "Advisory Services" is the responsibility of Farmer, Government, Scientists & Researchers. The plant is in need to a mechanism for growing, a harmonic between soil type, irrigation amount & times, weather, fertilizing, ... and many other factors. Farmers may have the knowledge - through their fathers, communities, may be education or [...]

IoT Applications in Crop Production

Today, connected devices are penetrating our life in many sectors starts from health, Home automation, logistics, smart Cities and Industrial Internet of Things [IIoT]. Agriculture had many technological transformation in adaption with industrial revolutions till reaching out to Agriculture 4.0 that mainly focuses on applying technology in farming, Thus Technologies like IoT - Internet of [...]

IoT in livestock improve your farms' productivity and Revenue

IoT and Precision Livestock Farming (PLF)

Like the crop monitoring, IoT technology can be applied for Animals too. Through attached sensors for monitoring their health, performance, Activity and nutrition insights of each cow. It is a great job, the farmers can't do with the perfection and especially for the large number of livestock and different animals. Farmers in the U.S. lose [...]