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Box 11. ICTs for climate change adaptation in agricultural sector, Japan

ICT can provide support in making informed decisions and production management of farmers with
sensing network, cameras and cloud service. They can measure, accumulate and analyse
environmental information such as temperature, humidity, quality of soil, solar insolation and
amount of rainfall of the field. They can also enable automatic optimization of environmental
conditions in a greenhouse or informed decision of farmers for best timing of harvesting and
prevention of epidemic of diseases on fields.

Examples of functions in a greenhouse controlled by ICT and related climate events

Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, installed a system which is capable of finely controlling greenhouse
temperatures, humidity, sunlight, and other growing conditions by measuring and accumulating
such data in a cloud to improve production stability and efficiency (See below). This system employs
the Ubiquitous Environment Control System (UECS) information standard for plant cultivation. UESC
enables the use of a smartphone and other devices to remotely manipulate devices and equipment
for controlling temperature, levels of sunlight, and other environmental conditions. This system is
chosen in terms of low implementation cost, ease of installation and low maintenance.
Image of greenhouse environment control by sensors and cloud

Source: Fujitsu http://jp.fujitsu.com/solutions/cloud/agri/uecs/

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