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The innovation in precision agriculture involves a system that remotely measures Volumetric Water Content (VWC) using low-cost IoT and AI technologies. It optimizes irrigation in challenging environments.
This innovation addresses the challenges of heavy precipitation, droughts, and heatwaves by optimizing irrigation water use, maximizing crop yields, and increasing the self-sufficiency of the Canary Islands in agricultural products like fruits, vegetables, and textile fibers. Through advanced monitoring and data-driven insights, it enhances the resilience of agriculture in a climate-vulnerable region, ensuring sustainable food production and resource management.
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Collection and sharing of environmental, agronomic, economic and social data (Canary Islands, Spain)
The proposed innovation relates to this item because the collected data is associated with all of the topics listed above. VWC measurements describe the system deployment site from the environmental and agronomic points of view. Indeed, the content of water in the underground is strictly related to environmental factors like meteorological phenomena. Then, it is much more related to the agronomic perspective since VWC plays a key role in tuning irrigation policies of plantations. Finally, concerning the economic and social aspects, they are a byproduct, since the collected data definitely contributes to enhancing the economic system (specifically the primary sector) of the Canary Islands, which participate in an upgrading of the social system as well.
● Decision-making tools for climate change adaptation in the agricultural sector (Canary Islands, Spain)
The proposed innovation relates to this item because the associated monitoring infrastructure is beneficial for helping decision makers in promptly counteracting the effects of climate change on the agricultural sector. Indeed, irrigation policies can be tuned on the basis of the VWC
The innovation was developed independently as a research activity within the Electronic Measurement research group of the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padova, Italy.
Owing to the theory standing behind electromagnetic waves propagation through media, the proposed innovation is less effective whenever the sensor nodes forming the WUSN are buried in soils which are not metal free. Indeed, metallic media tend to sensibly attenuate propagation, which translates into a notable effect on RSSIs. However, since VWC estimates are based on RSSI variations, if these are predominantly caused by metal in the underground, rather than dissolved water, such estimates have to be taken into account with a reduced degree of confidence.
The innovation in precision agriculture involves a system that remotely measures Volumetric Water Content (VWC) using low-cost IoT and AI technologies. It optimizes irrigation in challenging environments.
This innovation addresses the challenges of heavy precipitation, droughts, and heatwaves by optimizing irrigation water use, maximizing crop yields, and increasing the self-sufficiency of the Canary Islands in agricultural products like fruits, vegetables, and textile fibers. Through advanced monitoring and data-driven insights, it enhances the resilience of agriculture in a climate-vulnerable region, ensuring sustainable food production and resource management.
The main components of the system have been tested separately, and an initial integration exercise has been conducted.
Collection and sharing of environmental, agronomic, economic and social data (Canary Islands, Spain)
The proposed innovation relates to this item because the collected data is associated with all of the topics listed above. VWC measurements describe the system deployment site from the environmental and agronomic points of view. Indeed, the content of water in the underground is strictly related to environmental factors like meteorological phenomena. Then, it is much more related to the agronomic perspective since VWC plays a key role in tuning irrigation policies of plantations. Finally, concerning the economic and social aspects, they are a byproduct, since the collected data definitely contributes to enhancing the economic system (specifically the primary sector) of the Canary Islands, which participate in an upgrading of the social system as well.
● Decision-making tools for climate change adaptation in the agricultural sector (Canary Islands, Spain)
The proposed innovation relates to this item because the associated monitoring infrastructure is beneficial for helping decision makers in promptly counteracting the effects of climate change on the agricultural sector. Indeed, irrigation policies can be tuned on the basis of the VWC
The innovation was developed independently as a research activity within the Electronic Measurement research group of the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padova, Italy.
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