Wearable Plant Sensors for Climate-Smart Agriculture: Let the Plants do the talking
Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA or Precision/Smart Agriculture) is a very fast-growing research field, where more controlled quality production, water use optimisation, and a lower spreading of pesticides and fertilisers are some key issues, serving the improvement of food quality, but also helping to respect the environment. In the Talk, an overview of electronics for CSA will be presented, analysing the possible solutions that can bring important innovations. In particular, the wearable plant sensors will be introduced, which are innovating the actual strategies based on remote or indirect measurements, by instead of in-place measuring the plant and soil parameters (a.k.a. Let the Plants do The Talking). This new and disruptive technology has been recently identified by the World Economic Forum as one of the "Top five technologies about to change the world". Application scenarios for crop monitoring, water control, information communication and decision support will be shown.