Shivangi Arvind, PhD, delivered one of the most highly-rated presentations at our HortiCann Light + Tech Conference in October 2019 focused on “Truly Intelligent Farming.” Chief science officer Arvind and her engineering team at AgEye Technologies are developing what they call the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) as a play on the ubiquitous Internet of Things acronym. She explained that intelligent farming needs much more than connectivity. The farms of the future will have autonomous capability driven by machine learning to make adaptations to controlled environment agriculture (CEA) operations.
Arvind’s work is focused on higher yield of better plants while decreasing maintenance costs, crop losses, and the carbon footprint through technology. She earned a doctorate in horticultural science and plant physiology from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology in India and was recognized as Young Scientist (Agriculture) by the Uttarakhand Council of Science and Technology during that doctoral program. She earned an undergraduate degree from the same university and a master’s in fruit science at the University of Horticultural Sciences, Bagalkot.
