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.
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Table of Contents
Section I Basic principles
1. Nanotechnology for agriculture: an introduction
2. Nanotechnology and sustainable agriculture
3. Microbiology in agriculture: an introduction
4. Methods for design and fabrication of nanosensors
5. Magnetic nanomaterials-based biosensors
6. Nanoparticles-based sensors for agricultural application
7. Electrochemical sensors for agricultural application
8. Current commercial nanosensors and devices/products used in agriculture
9. Soil moisture nanosensors
10. Detection and evaluation of trace metals in soil using nanosensors
Section II Nanosensors for soilquality monitoring and control
11. Nanosensors for pesticide detection in soil
12. Application of nanosensors for pesticide detection
13. 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 soil
15. Nanobiosensors for soil microbial detection
16. Nanosensors for microbial detection in soil
17. Wireless nanosensor network for agricultural applications
18. Nanosensors for controlled release fertilizer
Section III Nanosensors for growing crops
19. Nanosensors for plant health monitoring
20. Wireless nanosensor network for irrigation control
21. Plant health monitoring using nanosensor system
22. Role of nanobiosensors and biosensors in plant virus detection
23. Nanosensors for animal health monitoring
24. Nanosensors for virus detection
Section IV Nanosensors for livestock farming
25. Virus detection using nanobiosensors
26. Animal health monitoring using nanosensor networks
27. Advanced nanosensors for virus detection
28. Use of nanosensor technologies in the food industry
29. Nanosensors for food logistics
Section V Nanosensors for agrifood manufacturing
30. Nanosensors for food inspection
31. Application of nanosensors in food inspection
32. Nanosensors for intelligent food packaging
33. Food products safety