Smart and Innovative Agriculture—from Outdoor Agriculture to Plant Factories
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Precision and Digital Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2022) | Viewed by 302
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Global agriculture is undergoing a deep transformation to face the challenges of a lack of natural resources, reducing energy consumption and the societal awareness of food quality. Practitioners must produce enough food to match the needs of the growing world population. Additionally, they have to improve food security, save resources (water, energy) and preserve ecosystems. The digital transformation based on smart production methods and connected sensors is a promising way to find responses to these challenges.
In urban areas, vertical farms are emerging to produce a local supply of specific foodstuffs. However, this production mode must improve its energy efficiency and offer a larger choice of edible products. In areas close to cities, crop production in greenhouses and open fields allows local supply with a certain energy footprint and a variable level of resource use. In particular, innovative solutions based on the use of connected sensors and artificial intelligence should provide resource efficiency gains.
With this Special Issue of Agronomy, we want to share information on these innovative production systems (plant factories) and their potential for improvement. We are also looking for studies highlighting the use of innovations in the sector of sensors and Internet of things (IoT) systems with the potential to improve the efficiency of resources, regardless of the production mode (greenhouse, open field, etc.). Finally, we encourage testimonials that demonstrate the transfer of smart innovations into practical application.
Dr. Cédric Camps
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- vertical farming
- agriculture 4.0
- biosensors and IoT systems
- robotics in agriculture
- agrivoltaics
- resources
- energy
- chemicals
- decision-support tools
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