Project SOAK: winning Australian Imagine Cup finals項目浸泡：打贏澳洲暢想杯決賽
Novelty boarding pass. 新穎的登機證。 Photo credit: Jordan Knight 照片信貸：約旦騎士
For the last couple of months I’ve been involved with a small group of students (David Burela, Edward Hooper, Dimaz Pramudya) in Melbourne to participate in Microsoft’s worldwide對於過去數月我已經涉及與一小群學生（朱burela ，何承天hooper ， dimaz pramudya ）在墨爾本參加在微軟的全球 Imagine Cup暢想杯 Software Design contest for students and our hard work has finally paid off today when we were judged out of four finalists as the Australian Imagine Cup winner to compete at the world finals in France early July.軟件設計競賽的學生和我們的艱苦工作，終於支付了今天，當我們判斷出4決賽，作為澳大利亞想像杯賽冠軍競爭，在世界總決賽在法國7月上旬。
I’ve only had a couple of hours sleep today so I’ll just share with you briefly what our project is about.我已經只有幾個小時的睡眠，所以今天我將與你分享簡略什麼我們的項目是有關。
SOAK which stands for “Smart Operational Agriculture toolKit” is an integrated hardware and softwares platform that aims to help farmers make the most of the water (and other) resources on their land.浸泡主張“智能業務的農業工具包”是一個集成的硬件和軟件平台，旨在幫助農民，使大部分的水（和其他）的資源，在他們的土地上。 It does this through an integration of a wide range of sensors which gathers data about the environment in real time, provide rich visual information to end-user about the status of the farm, and electronically controls various systems such as sprinklers.它通過一個一體化的範圍廣泛的傳感器蒐集的數據對環境進行實時，提供了豐富的視覺信息到最終用戶約地位的農場，和電子控制各種系統，如灑水。
None of the individual components are exceptionally revolutionary, but it’s the integration that we deliver that separates SOAK from other traditional systems.沒有個別組成格外革命，但它的一體化，我們提供分隔浸泡從其他的傳統系統。
For example by gathering online weather forecasts about the property, if the weather is predicted to rain in the next 48 hours and the current soil moisture is adequate till then, our system can conserve water usage by not watering before the rain falls.例如蒐集在線天氣預報有關的財產，如果天氣，預計降雨，在未來48小時和當前土壤水分是足夠的到，然後，我們的系統可以節約用水，使用不澆水前下雨。 Also as a precaution, is the rainfall is inadequate, the watering system will resume operations to compensate for the difference.此外，作為一項預防措施，是降雨量不足，灌溉系統將恢復作業，以彌補差額。
Obligatory screen teasers:強制屏幕傳情短訊：
For the main administrative interface we built a web application with a mashup of Windows Live Maps and Silverlight 2.0 overlaid on top.為主要管理界面，我們建立了一個Web應用程序與混和模式的Windows活地圖和silverlight 2.0疊加於頂端。
Of course I couldn’t miss a good opportunity to whip up some Vista Sidebar gadgets.當然，我不能錯過了很好的機遇，掀起了一些Vista的補充工具欄小工具。
My team partner我的團隊夥伴 David國寶 has a bit more detail and documentations about the project.有位更詳細的文稿及有關項目。 I’ll keep everyone updated with how we go at the world finals in Paris.我會不斷更新，每個人都與我們如何在世界總決賽在巴黎舉行。
Update: 更新： Australian PC Magazine has just published澳大利亞PC雜誌剛剛發表 a very insightful story on our project and the competition.一個非常有見地的故事，對我們的項目和競爭。
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