Agriculture today faces a great challenge of providing enough food and water for the ever-growing population. Advanced ICT technologies have the potential to make a huge impact - new paradigms such as “Internet of Things” and “Big Data” will, when deployed effectively, work towards achieving crucial long-term objectives of agriculture such as efficient farm management and resource efficiency, and traceability and supply chain efficiency.
In particular, multidisciplinary and synergic efforts of various research efforts in new materials, micro and nanoelectronics and wireless communications have resulted in new devices such as ultra-compact sensors for in-situ and proximal detection of various physical or chemical parameters important in agriculture. In this talk, some of the most recent results in microfluidic devices, laser micromachining for MEMS and other state-of-the-art technologies will be presented together with their applications in sensors for agriculture.
