Furthermore, lessening the dependency on human labor and enhancing the quality of agricultural products can also be considered to achieve through smart farming-IoT in agriculture a capital-intensive approach to constantly monitoring the fields for automating the irrigation system. Smart farming is nothing but an emerging concept where we incorporate information, communication Technologies, IoT-enabled sensors, predictive analysis, and automation to increase the number of crops in a calendar year. The number of technological transformations and agricultural applications also shows how we are advancing to smart farming day by day. Especially to meet the ever-growing demand, many companies and individuals have already started incorporating IoT in agriculture, which will only expand in the coming days. Starting from health and fitness, home automation, automotive and logistics, education, and industrial IoT have contributed to facilitating the work process and making our life flexible.
As people of today’s day and age, we are already quite familiar with the disruptions caused by IoT in every aspect of our life.
The competition between tech companies has reached the peak, and we can now enjoy more benefits from smart solutions. Each one-hour seminar takes place on Wednesdays and starts at 12 pm.We are forwarding to the fourth industrial revolution with the help of technological advancement, sustainable development, and increased efficiency.
Free and open to the public, the CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series is a weekly dialogue highlighting leading voices on societal-scale technology challenges. Professor Harmon’s research addresses a broad array of topics ranging from toxic waste site remediation, to climate change impacts on watershed behavior, leaf cutter ants and greenhouse gas emissions, and developing transdisciplinary approaches to solving socio-environmental problems.ĪBOUT SERIES: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from academic, industry, and civic leaders. This new design paradigm support more and better food while creating a vibrant future for workers and a healthy environment for future generations.īIO: Tom Harmon is a Professor and Founding Faculty member at UC Merced, where he serves as the Director of the Sierra Nevada Research Institute and the Chair of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. However, to create a sustainable California agri-food system, we must create a new model for agricultural technology (AgTech) design. We know that automation improves efficiency. California is an agriculturally rich state, yet its food system remains vulnerable to climate change, regulatory change, water availability, labor shortages, and unexpected disturbances. This presentation will introduce an exciting new research effort being undertaken by an interdisciplinary team from the University of California Merced, Berkeley, Davis, and Riverside campuses and UC Agriculture and Natural Resources. SPEAKER: Tom Harmon, UC Merced Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering professor and Sierra Nevada Research Institute director.ĪBSTRACT: An agricultural revolution driven by automation, big data, and artificial intelligence is upon us.
TALK TITLE: Labor and Automation in California Agriculture: Equity, Productivity, & Resilience