CASS Talks with Danilo Demarchi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Abstract:
Precision or Smart agriculture is a fast-growing research field. The increase of the human population is always demanding more food production and the consciousness of the importance of diet quality requires a more controlled and higher quality production, targeting an optimisation of water use and a lower spreading of pesticides. Thus, it is straightforward to apply the progress in electronics and sensors technology for reaching these different objectives. In this talk, an overview of the sensors applied for precision agriculture and the related smart systems will be presented. Application and technological scenarios based on intelligent electronic systems for crop monitoring, information communication and decision support will be analysed. A presentation of the state of the art of multi-sensing solutions and communication systems useful in agriculture will be followed by an analysis of the future scenarios of the application of digital technologies to precision agriculture.
Short Bio:
Full Professor at Politecnico di Torino, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications. Visiting Professor at EPFL Lausanne (2019) and at Tel Aviv University (2018-2021). Visiting Scientist (2018) at MIT and Harvard Medical School for the project SISTER (Smart electronic IoT SysTEms for Rehabilitation sciences). Author and co-author of 5 patents and more than 300 scientific publications in international journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings. Leading the MiNES (Micro&Nano Electronic Systems) Laboratory of Politecnico di Torino and coordinating the Italian Institute of Technology Microelectronics group at Politecnico di Torino (IIT@DET). Member of the IEEE Sensors Council, Member of the BioCAS Technical Committee, Associate Editor of the IEEE Sensors Journal, of the IEEE Open Journal on Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJ-EMB) and of the Springer-Nature Journal BioNanoScience. Senior Member of IEEE. General Chair of IEEE BioCAS (Biomedical Circuits and Systems) Conference in 2017 in Torino, and founder of IEEE FoodCAS Workshop (Circuits and Systems for the Foodchain). TPC Co-Chair of IEEE ICECS 2019, IEEE BioCAS 2021 and IEEE BioCAS 2022 conferences.
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/316983