Where
Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Espoo, Finland
When
June 20, 2022
(Exact day TBD)
Important dates
| Submission deadline: | April 15, 2022 |
| Notification of Acceptance: | April 30, 2022 |
| Camera ready manuscript due: | May 16, 2022 (firm) |
About
The global environmental emergency, due to rapid climate changes,
is having a strong impact on human activities and life and requires
immediate action in which people and productive activities can play an
individual and collective role.
From the other side, Society is
fast changing and is adopting new paradigms involving all aspects of
life, more careful not to upset the delicate equilibrium of the Earth
and where the attention is more focused on the well-being of humans
and animals.
In this context, Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) is
where smart and precise agriculture can converge to provide scientific
and technological solutions in support of the planet, human life and
agricultural production, with a continuous attention to the
environmental emergency. Furthermore, CSA can cope with the growth of
a starving population since current agricultural production is not
sufficient to provide all the necessary food, especially in the most
populated and environmentally stressed areas and where natural
resources (soil, water and biodiversity) are drastically
jeopardized.
Climate-Smart Agriculture, exploiting the technological evolution in the field of Pervasive Computing, IoT, Artificial Intelligence, embedded systems can respond to the aforementioned needs, guiding the evolution of agriculture and reorienting the focus on the Three Pillars of Climate-Smart Agriculture as stated by FAO:
- sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and incomes,
- adapting and building resilience to climate change,
- reducing and/or removing greenhouse gas emissions, where possible.
These pillars outline the direction of action regarding the FAO Strategic Framework 2022-2031 based on the Four Betters: better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life for all, leaving no one behind.
Call for Papers
Science can play an important role to address the goals of the Three Pillars of Climate-Smart Agriculture by helping to delay and contain the environmental emergency, to improve food production by making agriculture more efficient and with a lower environmental impact, reducing CO2 emissions and improving the resilience of crops. Technology evolution can provide advanced tools, methods, and systems to support the improvement of the quality of life of human and animals and to protect natural resources and biodiversity.
C-SmAgr workshop investigates the design, realisation and assessment of innovative technological solutions, including new paradigms, methods, systems and tools to ensure the implementation of the Three Pillars of Climate-Smart Agriculture supporting the diffusion and the implementation of CSA systems and solutions.
C-SmAgr is an interdisciplinary, multi-national initiative to gather electrical and telecommunication engineers, computer scientists, agronomists, biotechnologist to develop pervasive computing, embedded systems, and communication and networking solutions and devices to meet the aforementioned challenges. The workshop invites and calls for participation both representatives of academia and industry across the world interested in discussing on the last evolution of Climate-Smart Agriculture to face off the environmental emergency and to reorienting the agriculture evolution. From this point of view the workshop can provide a place where to profitably exchange ideas, present applications and solutions taking advantage from the heterogeneity of the contributors to encourage the cross-fertilization of ideas and competencies.
The papers should address forefront research and development in Climate-Smart Agriculture with a particular focus on, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- Pervasive computing and embedded systems solutions enabling Climate-Smart Agriculture.
- Artificial intelligence in Climate-Smart Agriculture.
- Communications and networking technologies supporting Climate-Smart Agriculture systems and solutions.
- New solutions, systems, models, applications to reduce CO2 emissions.
- Technologies and applications to sustainably increase agricultural productivity and resilience to climate changes.
- Technologies and application to preserve natural resources (soil, water, and biodiversity).
Commitees
Organizers and Workshop Chairs
Anna Lina Ruscelli, Gabriele Cecchetti
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
Technical Program Committee
- Mohammad Banat, Jordan University of Technology, Irbid, Jordan
- Piero Castoldi, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
- Carmelo Di Franco, Aitronik, Italy
- Anil Kumar Gupta, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune University Campus, India
- Yining Liu, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China
- Mukhtar Mohamed Edris Mahmoud, University of Kassala, Sudan and Puntland State University, Galkaio, Somalia
- Joel Onyango, Climate Resilient Economies Programme, African Centre for Technology Studies, Nairobi, Kenya
- Daniele Sarri, University of Florence, Italy
- Ana Paula Silva, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco - Escola Superior de Tecnologia, Portugal
- Nicola Silvestri, University of Pisa, Italy
- Lina Stankovic, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Registration
Each accepted workshop paper requires a full SMARTCOMP registration (registration for workshops only is not available).
Program
| Helsinki time (GMT+3) | Description |
|---|---|
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Welcome from the Chairs |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Keynote lecture: “Managing risks to build climate-smart and resilient agrifood value chains” Federica Matteoli (Project Manager on climate change, food security and natural resources management, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) |
10:00 - 11:00 | Session 1: Machine Learning for sustainable agriculture Chair: Anna Lina Ruscelli |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Quantification of dairy farm energy consumption to support the transition to sustainable farming Tamara Todic, Lina Stankovic, Vladimir Stankovic, Jiufeng Shi. |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Recent advances in plant diseases detection with Machine Learning: Solution for developing countries James Oluwaseun Adeola, Jules Dégila, Marco Zennaro |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Break |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Session 2: Intelligent system for sustainable smart agriculture Chair: Tamara Todic |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Monitoring and automation for sustainable smart greenhouses Gabriele Cecchetti, Anna Lina Ruscelli |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Closing remarks |
Venue
Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Espoo, Finland
C-SmAgr 2022 workshop is held in conjuction with SMARTCOMP 2022 conference and will be held in Aalto University, Espoo, Finland, hosted by Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering. Aalto University is a public research university located in Espoo, Finland, within the Greater Helsinki metropolitan area. It was established in 2010 as a merger of three major Finnish universities: the Helsinki University of Technology, the Helsinki School of Economics and the University of Art and Design Helsinki. The close collaboration between the scientific, business and arts communities is intended to foster multi-disciplinary education and research. The conference venue is at the the Undergraduate Centre, Otakaari 1, 02150 Espoo.