Consumer Technologies for Smart Agriculture

Millets for Next Generation Climate-Smart Agriculture

Panicoids (subfamily: panicoideae) are a group of C4 grasses, which include agronomically important crops such as sorghum and maize, bioenergy feedstocks including sugarcane and miscanthus, nutri-cereals such as millets, and biofuel crops including switchgrass, napier grass and guinea grass. Among these, millets are known for their climate-resilient features including adaptation to a wide range...

Communication Technologies for Smart Objects

Today the world is overwhelmed by a load of different wireless communication technologies. The concept of interconnecting the things around us into a network raises the question about which communication technologies to use for a specific domain. This paper gives an overview over common wireless communication technologies and how to use them to connect smart objects in different application dom...

Wireless Technologies at Agriculture ITP

Smart Grid Technologies: Communications Technologies and Standards

For a hundred years, there has been no change in the basic structure of the electrical power grid. Experiences have shown that the hierarchical, centrally-controlled grid of the twentieth century is ill-suited to the needs of the twenty-first. To address the challenges of the existing power grid, the new concept of smart grid has emerged. The smart grid can be considered as a modern electric po...

Smart Damping Technologies for Dynamic Hazard Mitigation

In recent years, considerable attention has been paid to research and development of structural control devices, with particular emphasis on alleviation of wind and seismic response of buildings and bridges. In both areas, serious efforts have been undertaken to develop the structural control concept into a workable technology. To date, full-scale active and hybrid control systems have been des...