Water is vital for ensuring food security to the world population, and agriculture is the biggest consumer. In order to address IoT based methods and approaches for smart water management in irrigation, EU and Brazil are funding SWAMP (Smart Water Management Platform - http://swamp-project.org/), a research and innovation project of the Horizon 2020 Framework with pilots in Italy, Spain and Brazil. SWAMP partners organize this Workshop with the aim of bringing together people interested to discuss and enlighten the challenges, the opportunities and the long term ambitions of agriculture digitalization. IMSA18 is addressed to researchers and stakeholders of this multidisciplinary domain.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following subject areas:
-Platforms, tools and apps in smart agriculture
-Flying and ground sensors&actuators in smart agriculture
-Drones based monitoring and control in agriculture
-IoT based solutions for precision irrigation
-IoT based solutions for water distribution in agriculture
-Big-data based learning in agriculture
-Smart agriculture and climate change
-Business models for IoT in agriculture
-Challenges, opportunities and threads in smart agriculture