scholarly journals Standardization of the Dimensions of a Portable Weighing Lysimeter Designed to Be Applied to Vegetable Crops in Mediterranean Climates

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2210
Author(s):  
Manuel Soler-Méndez ◽  
Dolores Parras-Burgos ◽  
Estefanía Mas-Espinosa ◽  
Antonio Ruíz-Canales ◽  
Diego S. Intrigliolo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Vegetable Crops ◽  
Measurement Systems ◽  
Efficient Management ◽  
Herbaceous Crops ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Made In ◽  
Weighing Lysimeter

The progress made in developing information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the fact that water resources are becoming increasingly scarce make precision agriculture a very valuable tool for efficient and sustainable crop management, particularly for irrigation and fertilisation. In line with this, the water balance estimate is considered one of the most accurate methods for estimating crops’ water requirements. The Agromotic Engineering and Sea Research Group of the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (Spain) has worked in this direction to obtain portable weighing lysimeters with improved functions compared to traditional measurement systems. This study analysed the most important vegetable crops in south-eastern Spain to standardise suitable dimensions so that these portable weighing lysimeters can monitor practically all of today’s vegetable and herbaceous crops in Mediterranean climates. The dimensions established for the cultivation tank are 150 cm long, 45 cm wide, and 50 cm deep, with an equipment resolution of up to 0.09 mm expressed as water lamina. The validation over seven irrigation events established that the structural system achieved here allows precise monitoring of the water exchanges produced in the cultivation tank, so this portable weighing lysimeter can be useful for the efficient management of fertigation.

Determination of the effect of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to unit labour cost: G7 countries examples

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-129
Author(s):  
Serdar Ozturk ◽  
Lutfi Bicimveren
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Labour Cost ◽  
G7 Countries ◽  
Vector Autoregressive ◽  
Human Power ◽  
Causality Tests ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Made In

Following the realisation of the revolutions in various fields on Earth, the field of information and communication has also been incorporated into these developed fields. Where information and communication technologies (ICTs) are not enough for human power, they are confronted as a field that seizes work, or even accelerates them in practice. The main purpose of this study is to determine whether there is a relationship between investment of ICTs and unit labour costs (ULCs) in the G7 countries between 1990 and 2010. In the study panel, vector autoregressive and Granger Causality tests were applied. As a result of the analysis made, a negative and significant relationship has been determined between the investments made in the ICTs and the ULC.Keywords: ICT, labour cost, causality, relationship.Jel Classification Codes: O3, J2.∗

scholarly journals GeoSense: A Multimode Information and Communication System

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Sudharsan ◽  
J. Adinarayana ◽  
A. K. Tripathy ◽  
S. Ninomiya ◽  
M. Hirafuji ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Network Location ◽  
Open Hardware ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Information And Communication

Recent technological developments allowed to envision the low-power (solar power) and low-cost (open hardware) sensor devices (Agrisens/FieldServer/Flux Tower/FieldTwitter) with multimode (ZigBee/WiFi/3G/WebGIS) information and communication technologies (ICTs), a model in which is christened as GeoSense. Integrating these multimode and multi-level communication systems with distributed ambient sensory network location-based service (LBS) is a challenging task, which could be a potential technology for monitoring various natural phenomena. This integrated model is introduced to provide and assist the rural stakeholders with real-time decision support system (DSS) with dynamic information and modeling services for precision agriculture through GeoSense cloud service. This GeoSense research has been experimented in semiarid tropics in India under Indo-Japan initiative on multi-disciplinary ICT program.

scholarly journals A Survey on the Use of the Internet of Multimedia Things for Precision Agriculture and the Agrifood Sector

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Alvertos Ioannis Mourikis ◽  
Romanos Kalamatianos ◽  
Ioannis Karydis ◽  
Markos Avlonitis
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
In Situ Sensing ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) has already penetrated an ever-increasing array of daily aspects of life. IoTs bridge the analog and digital worlds in an unprecedented manner and degree by providing in situ sensing. Adding to the IoT the capability to collect interrelated multi-modal sensing, the use of the Internet of Multimedia Things (IoMTs) has recently been exhibited to significantly enhance the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in numerous applications, and most importantly in agrifood systems. In this work, we review key recent works in the conjunction of the three domains of IoMT, agrifood and precision agriculture and present open research directions.

scholarly journals Situación de extrema diversidad y tecnologías de la información y la comunicación. Intervención en una unidad con pacientes residentes

2006 ◽  
pp. a068
Author(s):  
Francisca Negre Bennasar ◽  
Sebastià Verger Gelabert ◽  
David Abarca Cstro
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Calidad De Vida ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Faculty Of Education ◽  
The University ◽  
Made In

Este artículo describe la intervención realizada en la Unidad de Semicríticos del Hospital Son Dureta y mediante un convenio con la Facultad de Educación de la Universidad de las Islas Baleares, centrándose en la descripción de la utilización de las TIC’s como recurso para mejorar la calidad de vida de los pacientes en situación de extrema diversidad residentes en la Unidad.AbstractThis article describes the intervention made in the Son Dureta Hospital’s Semicritical Unit by means of an agreement with the Faculty of Education of the University of the Balearic Islands.The article is based on the description of how useful the TIC’s (Information and Communication Technologies) are as a resource to improve the extreme diversity resident patient’s quality of life in the Unit.

The Importance of Information in the Generation of Competitive Value

2018 ◽  
pp. 651-667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Fernandes da Anunciação ◽  
Adérito Martins ◽  
Andreia Bernardo ◽  
Carla Lino Costa ◽  
Miraldina Duarte
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Information Architecture ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Made In

Companies assume information systems, particularly information and communication technologies, as strategic tools for the generation of competitive advantages. However, it is in the information, as the main economic resources in the information society, that should be concentrated management attention. Only information can provide the achievement of competitive advantages. It is important that management, in the various organizational domains, can ensure that the information architecture satisfies the different functional requirements corresponding to the different organizational areas. It is also important to ensure that the investments made in systems and technologies generate economic value to the organization.

A Netnographic Approach on Digital Emerging Literacies in the Digital Inclusion Program AcessaSP - Brazil

2016 ◽  
pp. 236-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Eduardo Botelho-Francisco
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The State ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Apparent Ability ◽  
Made In

This chapter presents survey made in one of the largest programs of Brazilian digital inclusion, AcessaSP, responsible for the provision of spaces for access and interact with information and communication technologies in virtually every city in the State of São Paulo. It is reported netnographic qualitative research with actors in network of telecentres and infocenters goers. The text is organized to discuss the digital inclusion from the perspective of interactivity and emergent literacies, affiliate concept of this work, we consider important to the understanding of skills, abilities and skills in appropriating digital. Completion of some topics considered vectors of digital inclusion for its apparent ability to conduct important experiments in the development of literacies of an autonomous process, can be inferred from including social networking, games, mobile, interpersonal communication, production multimedia and work and entrepreneurship.

scholarly journals Characterization and Efficient Management of Big Data in IoT-Driven Smart City Development

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (11) ◽  
pp. 2430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alaa Alsaig ◽  
Vangalur Alagar ◽  
Zaki Chammaa ◽  
Nematollaah Shiri
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
City Development ◽  
Efficient Management ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Service Oriented

Smart city is an emerging initiative for integrating Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in effective ways to support development of smart cities with enhanced quality of life for its citizens through safe and secure context-aware services. Major technical challenges to realize smart cities include resource use optimization, service delivery without interruption at all times in all aspects, minimization of costs, and reduction of resource consumption. To address these challenges, new techniques and technologies are required for modeling and processing the big data generated and used through the underlying Internet of Things (IoT). To this end, we propose a data-centric approach to IoT in conceptualizing the “things” from a service-oriented perspective and investigate efficient ways to identify, integrate, and manage big data. The data-centric approach is expected to better support efficient management of data with complexities inherent in IoT-generated big data. Furthermore, it supports efficient and scalable query processing and reasoning techniques required in development of smart city applications. This article redresses the literature and contributes to the foundations of smart cities applications.

scholarly journals An Innovative ICT Solution for Sewer Systems

10.29007/s8nt ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoni Grau ◽  
Yolanda Bolea ◽  
Alberto Sanfeliu ◽  
Ana Puig-Pey
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Sewer Systems ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Sewage Systems ◽  
Made In

The objective of this paper is to explain the importance of research in wastewater transportation (sewage systems) using new technologies such as robotics systems and information and communication technologies (ICTs). ECHORD++ (European Coordination Hub for Open Robotics Development) is a very useful tool to foster this research and to meet needs and solutions. In this paper, authors explain the tool as well as the methodology to promote robotics research in urban environments, and the on-going experience will demonstrate that huge advances are made in this field.

scholarly journals Participatory Management to Improve Accessibility in Consolidated Urban Environments

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8323
Author(s):  
Raquel Pérez-delHoyo ◽  
María Dolores Andújar-Montoya ◽  
Higinio Mora ◽  
Virgilio Gilart-Iglesias ◽  
Rafael Alejandro Mollá-Sirvent
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Participatory Management ◽  
Efficient Management ◽  
Universal Accessibility ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Urban Accessibility ◽  
Information And Communication

There is a wide range of regulations on universal accessibility, but our cities are still inaccessible in many cases. Most accessibility problems in cities occur in consolidated areas that were developed prior to the development of current accessibility regulations. This leads to consider the importance of focusing more effort on managing the improvement of the accessibility of existing public urban environments. As such, the objective of this research is to design a conceptual model for accessibility management in consolidated urban environments. Unlike other research focusing on city users to collect information on accessibility problems or to provide services to improve wayfinding, this method has a focus on urban accessibility managers. The model is based on the assessment of the level of accessibility of urban environments together with the assessment of management processes in which city users are actively involved. It consists of a set of basic indicators for the identification of accessible pedestrian routes, and provides a dynamic accessibility index for the evaluation of their efficient management by the responsible governments. The inclusion of this assessment framework in the management process itself enables the necessary improvement actions to be identified and taken in time. ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) provide the communication channel between the responsible governments and city users, making this a more dynamic and efficient management model based on assessment possible.

The Development of Youth’s Artistic Communication Underthe Influence of the Development of Science and Information and Communication Technologies

2012 ◽  
pp. 156
Author(s):  
Daina Bute
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
First Graders ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Type ◽  
Iconic Signs ◽  
Everyday Communication ◽  
Made In

Due to the development of the ICT a new type of student is created. These students are no more passive users of the system of eduaction, they are creating it themselves.Under the influence of the ICT, students use signs, icons and symbols in their everyday communication. The aim or the work - The influence and significance of the information and communication technologies on the development of youth’s artistic communication and creation of new signs. It has been observed that visual perception dominates for majority of people. This is also the reason why visual images and symbols have served as means of communication in the history of human development. Nowadays, numbers, letters and their combinations that contain special meaning and iconic signs are often used in students’ everyday communication. The ICT have brought some changes in students’ perception of the world. The experiment, made in the Art lesson by questioning the first graders, showed that existing ideas about the styles of art that children like at this age are in the contraversion with reality.

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