Fecha de publicación: 29/04/2015 Fuente: Wipo tomato The invention relates to a tomato ripeness detection method based on species identification. The method comprises the following steps that (1) a tomato ripeness detection system based on species identification is provided; the detection system comprises a wireless communication interface, an image collector, a species recognizer and a ripeness detection instrument; the image collector shoots a strain of tomato to obtain a tomato image, the species recognizer is connected with the image collector and the wireless communication interface, the species of the tomato is identified based on the tomato image, the species of the tomato is sent to an agriculture and forestry management server at the far end to obtain returned ripeness data corresponding to the tomato species, the ripeness detection instrument is connected with the wireless communication interface and the species recognizer to identify the ripeness of the overall strain of tomato corresponding to the tomato image based on the ripeness data; (2) the system is operated.