ITU‐T's Technical Reports and Specifications 569 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/