Solutions for the forecast of plagues

Companies from the Scientific Park offer solutions that end with the bad odor of barns and mobile applications that warn farmers if there is a possibility of disease emerging among their livestock.

At the Agricultural Fair of Castile and Leon, called Salamaq, different presentations were held of the projects that are currently being implemented with the aim of contributing to the primary sector of the community. One of the presented projects was that of a company called Ficosterra, which has recently settled in the Scientific Park; in their project they use seaweed on farms in order to reduce bad organic odors, as explained in the article in La Gaceta de Salamanca.

Additionally, the researcher José Abel Bote presented a mobile application that tells farmers when they should irrigate and fertilize their crops, creating their own sensors which are more economic than those of competitors. Data can be sent to the platform every 10 minutes. The possibility of transferring the knowledge of the University to our fields and its professionals, is the best way of generating richness in the most fundamental sector of our economy. For this reason, we will go to great lengths to collaborate together with the Council of Salamanca, developing research projects that will bring innovation to our fields.

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Posted by Juan M. Corchado

Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca. He has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2013 to 2017 and Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He leads the renowned BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) Research Group, created in 2000. Director of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute, J. M. Corchado is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015, Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and Member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL). J. M. Corchado has been president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and academic coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology at the University of Salamanca, as well as researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He currently combines all his activity with the direction of Master programmes in Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z System, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management, and Smart Cities & Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca and his work as editor-in-chief of the journals ADCAIJ (Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal), OJCST (Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology) or Electronics MDPI (Computer Science & Engineering section). J. M. Corchado mainly works on projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Sentiment Analysis. He has recently been included in the board of trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation, along with other health professionals and researchers recognised for bringing scientific knowledge closer to society.

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