Information and Communication Technology in Agriculture
NJF 411 seminar InfoXT final seminar 4.-5.-6.2008 TKK Department of Automation and Systems Technology Espoo
• The Nordic countries are well-known for their high quality agricultural products and good farm management. • Family farms are the foundation of Nordic agriculture. • External demands on agriculture are increasing, leading to pressures on farms that may become overwhelming. • These external demands relate to efficiency, compliance with standards, the environment, ethics and human and animal health. • Information management has an important role to play in coping with these demands.
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• Modern ICT provides tools to solve problems and facilitate the development of sustainable agriculture. • However, agricultural processes are diverse, comprising disperse systems, and thus a common understanding and concept of information management in agriculture is needed. • • A common concept assists all actors in the value chain to develop their own processes and products to meet the demand. • Availability of skilled labour is a challenge that has to be considered when developing information management concepts in Nordic agriculture. • The information technology developed has to be acceptable to endusers.
4th of June Time
Topic
Place / info
9.30 - 10.15
Registering and coffee
TKK/TUAS house
10.15 - 10.30
Opening the seminar Liisa Pesonen & Ole Green
10.30 - 11.15
Keynote presentation Information Systems for EU Farmers Simon Blackmore, CERETETH / University of Thessaly
11.15 - 12.00
Keynote presentation Delivering Information and Decision Support Technologies to the Machine and Service Provider Customer Nyle Wollenhaupt, AGCO Corporation
12.00 - 13.00
Lunch
TUAS Amica restaurant
13.00 - 14.30 Session I 13.00 - 13.45
Keynote presentation Towards a practice of precision farming Leena Norros, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
13.45 - 14.15
The present situation on the application of ICT in precision agriculture in Sweden Rydberg, A. & Olsson, J., JTI Swedish Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering
14.15 - 15.15
Coffee and Posters
TKK/TUAS house
15.15 - 16.15 Session II 15.15 - 15.45 SoilWeather: In-situ wireless sensor network for agriculture Sirpa Thessler, MTT Agrifood research Finland 15.45 - 16.15
16.15 19.00 - 24.00
Reducing wireless acceleration data flow by intelligent embedded algorithms JohannesTiusanen, UH University of Helsinki End of day Dinner Restaurant Ranta
http://www.radissonsas.com
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Leppävaara N Airport 27km
Bus stop Parking Walkway
NJF 411-seminar
HUT Taxi pole Radisson SAS Hotel
Restaurant Ranta Bus to Tapiola (all busses)
Some shops
Bus from/to Leppävaara: (bus stop ”Konemies”) 550 (5-10min interval) 510, 52, 52N, 512A
Bus from/to Helsinki (Bus stop ”Alvar Aallon puisto”) 102, 102T, 103 194, 195
Helsinki
5th of June Time
Topic
Place / info
9.15 - 10.15
Session III
TKK/TUAS house
9.15 - 9.45
User-centric information modeling Claus Aage GrønSørensen, AU Aarhus University
9.45 - 10.15
InfoXT system design and main functional features Raimo Nikkilä, TKK Helsinki University of Technology
10.15 - 10.45
Coffee
TKK/TUAS house
10.45 - 11.45 Session IV 10.45 - 11.15
Publish-Subscribe Middleware for Agricultural Applications Thomas Jakobsen, Alexandra Institute Ltd.
11.15 - 11.45
ICT in Dairy Production – a complete management tool Johanne Lindstrøm, AU Aarhus University
11.45 - 12.45
Lunch and Posters
TUAS Amica restaurant
12.45 - 13.30
Excursion in TKK Department of Automation and Systems Technology
TUAS house
13.30 - 14.30 Session V 13.30 - 14.00
Design and development of cabinet for wireless embedded silage sensor Ole Juul Jørgensen, AU Aarhus University
14.00 - 14.30
On-line silage storage survey with wireless sensor technologies Ole Green, AU
14.30 - 15.00
Coffee
TKK/TUAS house
15.00 - 15.45 Session VI 15.00 - 15.25
Application of information and GIS technology in Agriculture Pirkko Laakso, Viljavuuspalvelu Oy
15.25 - 15.50
ePotato - An electronic product description of certified seed potato Timo Remes, MTT Agrifood Research Finland
15.50 - 16.00 Closing the seminar
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6th of June, Excursion Time
Topic
Place / info
8.45
Departure to excursion
TKK/TUAS parking
10.00 – 10.45
MTT’s experimental fields in Hovi -Coffee -SOILWEATHER platform
Hovi fields in Vihti
11 – 11.45
MTT Vihti -Research prototypes -Testing facilities
MTT Vihti (http:www.mtt.fi)
12.00 - 13.30
Lunch and tour in Olkkala Estate
http://www.olkkalankartano.fi/
13.50 - 15.00
Yara Suomi, Kotkaniemi Experimental Farm
Ojakkala, Vihti
16.00
Back at TKK
TKK/TUAS parking
Available at: www.nordicinnovation.net and www.mtt.fi/infoxt
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Information and Communication Technology in Agriculture
Welcome!
Organising committee: Liisa Pesonen, chair, Ole Green, secretary Harri Koskinen, Raimo Nikkilä, Anna Rydberg, Claus Sørensen
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