José María Manzano | The Hunger of Plants

Loyola University offers an afternoon of science and sustainability with the conference given by the deputy director of the School of Engineering at the university, José María Manzano.

Manzano explains that there are different approaches to combat drought. Seventy percent of freshwater in Andalusia is used for irrigation water and plants. “If we could measure how much a plant has drunk, how thirsty it is, and give it just the water it needs (and no more), we would be talking about irrigation efficiency,” says the researcher.

This is precisely the approach of the research line of the ODS group at Loyola Andalucía University, which applies digitalisation to the field and artificial intelligence algorithms to help both the crop and the farmer; a project that can and should be used in gardening and urban parks. “There are some challenges to be faced, such as low-cost techniques to measure humidity; connecting sensors in the field, without access to WiFi; or designing algorithms that are valid for both storms and days with temperatures over 40º. As we engineers say: ‘to problems, solutions’”, in the words of José María Manzano himself.

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