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The Next Agricultural Revolution - ICT and Automation

The document discusses how information and communication technologies (ICT) and automation will drive the next agricultural revolution. ICT is allowing new forms of urban farming and hydroponics to emerge through online sharing of knowledge and best practices. Precision agriculture is being enabled by technologies like sensors, drones, and satellite imagery combined with artificial intelligence. Novel farming systems like vertical farming and algae production rely on ICT for monitoring and management. Advances in data analytics and predictive technologies will optimize crop yields and resource use. Space exploration will further advance controlled environment agriculture through international data sharing.

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The Next Agricultural Revolution - ICT and Automation

The document discusses how information and communication technologies (ICT) and automation will drive the next agricultural revolution. ICT is allowing new forms of urban farming and hydroponics to emerge through online sharing of knowledge and best practices. Precision agriculture is being enabled by technologies like sensors, drones, and satellite imagery combined with artificial intelligence. Novel farming systems like vertical farming and algae production rely on ICT for monitoring and management. Advances in data analytics and predictive technologies will optimize crop yields and resource use. Space exploration will further advance controlled environment agriculture through international data sharing.

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The next agricultural revolution: ICT,

and Automation

Vasileios Vallas
[email protected]
Twitter: @MrDoubleV
A concrete answer to anyone willing to become an urban
farmer with a minimal time investment and without needing to
be an horticultural expert
Remote sensing module: Hive Vision
What makes us different
Hive vision: plant
health diagnostics
through Machine
Learning
ICT allowed our project to come into existence

• Forums, tutorials, GitHub;


• Raspberry Pi, Arduino and sensors
• Guides on hydroponics and generally on how to grow plants
Agricultural revolutions

• Transition from hunting to gathering (10.000 BC)


• Arab agricultural revolution (8th - 13th century)
• British agricultural revolution (17th – 19th century)
• Scottish agricultural revolution (17th – 19th century)
• Third agricultural revolution / Green revolution (1930s – 1960s)
• Next agricultural revolution - ICT, Automation, Novel Farm Systems
The renaissance of hydroponics

• During the 1600’s, several techniques were used to protect horticultural crops
against the cold
• Glass lanterns, bell jars, hot beds covered in glass
• Greenhouse food production established after the introduction of polyethylene in
1948
• First use of computers by greenhouse growers
• Since the past 10-20 years, there has been a renewed interest in hydroponics and
CEA

Source: https://cals.arizona.edu/hydroponictomatoes/future.htm
How ICT and automation are impacting
agriculture and CEA
• Global transformational opportunity
• Better research
• Technological democratization & wider/faster distribution of knowledge
• Faster development and adoption of automation
• Traceability
• Crop monitoring – drones, cameras and satellite imagery
• AI applications
The Internet as a learning platform

• A new generation of vertical farmers is being brewed


• Forums
• MOOCS
• Vocational training seminars
The Internet as a marketplace

• A lot of CEA players conduct their business mostly or exclusively


online!
• Millennials have an increasingly high interest in house plants and urban
farming
Data management and remote monitoring

• Crop management software


• Remote sensors and control systems
• Labor reduction
• Better crop and yield management
• Better understanding of plant physiology and pathology
ICT and automation in Novel Food Production
Systems
• Renewed interest in Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) /
vertical farming, AMI, Algae
• Biggest challenge of CEA is the amount of energy used
• Large scale adoption of circular farming systems is unthinkable
without ICT and Data management.
• Labor intensive process
• heavy logistics
AI in Data mining: Predictive technologies

• Artificial intelligence applications in farming


• Yield prediction
• Infection and infestation predictions
• Energy consumption minimization
• Climate and light recipes: Expressing certain physiological features thanks to
particular nutrition, climate conditions and light spectrum
From open field to deep space

• Deep space exploration goes hand-in-hand with space farming and


CEA
• Data harvested from CEA will contribute in establishing standards for crop-
growing in outer space
• Climate and light recipes will serve in meeting nutrition and food supplement
quantity levels for space crews

Source: https://www.nasa.gov/
Your data matter !
Thank you for your attention!

Your data matter ! Vasileios Vallas


[email protected]
Twitter: @MrDoubleV

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