The 2018 China International Big Data Fusion Innovation and Artificial Intelligence Global Competition rounds off in Guiyang, China, on May 25 [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Zhongguancun-based GAGO Tech won the Data Application Innovation Prize in the China International Big Data Fusion Innovation and Artificial Intelligence Global Competition on May 25.

Out of hundreds of competitors from 15 countries and regions, GAGO Tech was the only agricultural big data company to reach the final.

The final round represented the highest performance of almost every AI-enabled industry, such as the IoT (Internet of Things) and cloud computing, smart manufacturing and new retailing, healthcare, education and agriculture.

A sketch of GAGO Tech's remote-sensing technology [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

GAGO Tech has taken the lead in analyzing agricultural information via satellite imagery and deep-learning technologies. Using remote-sensing images it can even precisely identify the status of crops and greenhouses in a certain area.

Capturing a sea of dynamic data from satellites, drones and other monitoring devices, GAGO Tech offers designated AI algorithms and applications for customers engaged in agriculture and finance.

In order to lower the threshold and benefit more customers, GAGO Tech adopts the SaaS (Software as a service) model, which links farmers and GAGO Tech with cloud computing and a thin client.

As a major event of the 2018 China (Guiyang) International Big Data Expo, the big-time contest was an arena for leading AI companies from home and abroad to showcase their projects in integrating big data and the real economy.

Divided into six sub-contest areas, including China, the United States and Israel, the contest attracted 1,116 projects from 15 countries and regions, more than 50 top experts and over 100 investors from all over the world in the field of AI.

Developers and founders of GAGO Inc at the award ceremony [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]