Food computer

Draft

The Food Computer “creates a controlled environment using robotic control systems and actuated climate, energy, and plant sensing mechanisms. Not unlike climate-controlled data centers optimized for rows of servers, FCs are designed to optimize agricultural production by monitoring and actuating a desired climate inside of a growing chamber.” Cited by IEEE Spectrum, 1/2016

“The combination of open sourced digital plant recipes, open technology platforms, and the IoP will lead to the democratization of food production enabled by massive communities of users.” (Hapert & Siller, 2015:27)

“[The] next agricultural revolution will be based on interconnected open food production platforms (food computers) to increase production either by scaling up or scaling out and sharing data to form a new kind of network, the Internet of Plants (IoP). This new Internet is a digital-plant-recipe-centric network.” (Hapert & Siller, 2015:24)

Links

MIT OpenAG:

• MIT OpenAG homepage
• OpenAG Hardware
• Open_Agriculture_Initiative (Wikipedia)

Bibliography

• Harper, C.; Siller, M., "OpenAG: A Globally Distributed Network of Food Computing," in Pervasive Computing, IEEE , vol.14, no.4, pp.24-27, Oct.-Dec. 2015, doi: 10.1109/MPRV.2015.72, PDF (?)