Description
Nanosensors for Smart Agriculture covers new breakthroughs in smart agriculture, highlighting new technologies, such as the internet of things, big data and artificial intelligence. In addition, the book provides the many advantages of nanosensors over their micro counterparts, such as lower power consumption, higher sensitivity, lower concentration of analytes, and smaller interaction distances between the object and sensor. Sections provide information on fundamental design concepts and emerging applications of nanosensors in smart agriculture. The book highlights how, when cultivating soil, nanosensors and their wireless networks can be used for soil quality monitoring (moisture/herbicides/organic compound/trace metals monitoring in soil, etc.Other applications cover how smart nanosensors can be used for virus detection and hygiene/pathogen controls in livestocks, their use as active transport tracking devices for smart tracking and tracing, and other various applications, such as (i) nanochips for identity (radio frequency identification), (ii) food inspection, (iii) intelligent food packaging, and (iv) smart storage. This is an important reference source for materials scientists and agricultural engineers who are looking to understand more about how nanosensor technology can be used to create more efficient and sustainable agricultural systems.- Outlines the fabrication and fundamental design concepts of nanosensors for agricultural applications- Explains how nanosensors are being used throughout the agricultural cycle – from crop growth to food manufacturing- Assesses major challenges surrounding the application of nanosensors to agricultural applications in mass scale
Table of Contents
Section I Basic principles1. Nanotechnology for agriculture: an introduction2. Nanotechnology and sustainable agriculture3. Microbiology in agriculture: an introduction4. Methods for design and fabrication of nanosensors5. Magnetic nanomaterials-based biosensors6. Nanoparticles-based sensors for agricultural application7. Electrochemical sensors for agricultural application8. Current commercial nanosensors and devices/products used in agriculture9. Soil moisture nanosensors10. Detection and evaluation of trace metals in soil using nanosensorsSection II Nanosensors for soilquality monitoring and control11. Nanosensors for pesticide detection in soil12. Application of nanosensors for pesticide detection13. Nanosensors for detecting nutrient losses from soil (as gaseous ammonia and nitrous oxide, and/or soil leachates as nitrate and phosphate)14. Nanosensors for the detection of heavy trace metals in soil15. Nanobiosensors for soil microbial detection16. Nanosensors for microbial detection in soil17. Wireless nanosensor network for agricultural applications18. Nanosensors for controlled release fertilizerSection III Nanosensors for growing crops19. Nanosensors for plant health monitoring20. Wireless nanosensor network for irrigation control21. Plant health monitoring using nanosensor system22. Role of nanobiosensors and biosensors in plant virus detection23. Nanosensors for animal health monitoring24. Nanosensors for virus detectionSection IV Nanosensors for livestock farming25. Virus detection using nanobiosensors26. Animal health monitoring using nanosensor networks27. Advanced nanosensors for virus detection28. Use of nanosensor technologies in the food industry29. Nanosensors for food logisticsSection V Nanosensors for agrifood manufacturing30. Nanosensors for food inspection31. Application of nanosensors in food inspection32. Nanosensors for intelligent food packaging33. Food products safety
