Here’s a news article I wrote for The Conversation about how digital twins will enable the next generation of precision agriculture: https://theconversation.com/how-digital-twins-will-enable-the-next-generation-of-precision-agriculture-213711.
Drastic climate change and overpopulation have rendered traditional agricultural practices unsustainable. Even more economically affluent countries, such as Canada suffer from constantly increasing household food insecurity. As traditional outdoor farming is unable to address these challenges, indoor farming techniques, such as controlled environment agriculture (CEA) are becoming of particular interest. However, they require proper computer-aided support. Such computer-aided methods and tools are developed in our lab on Sustainable Systems and Methods (SSM).
