AFFILIATION : Clermont Ferrand University -France
THEME : Smart object for smart farming.
SUMMARY Today, IoT cloud platform and framework are mature and it is estimated that by 2020, over 75 million agricultural IoT devices will be in use, while the average farm is expected to generate an average of 4.1 million data points every day in 2050, up from 190.000 in 2014. The definitions of object, IoT, IoE ‘Internet of Everything’ and smart object are still confused and rarely investigated for smart farming applications. In this presentation, I will introduce the concept of object and smart object, which will drive the next ICT ‘information and communications technology’ revolution. The areas of application of smart objects are enormous. To illustrate its capacity and usefulness an application of smart farming such as smart irrigation based on smart object platform and framework will be presented. My presentation is organized as following. First, I present the challenge of smart object technology, the concepts of the object and intelligent objects. Secondly, I focus on the definitions of the object and the smart object. The state of the art of the smart object is studied. How to classify the ability of smart objects is also presented. Third, the smart object hardware platform to use as proof of concept to implement smart object for smart agriculture application will be presented. Finally, I will address the impacts and challenges of smart objects for smart farming. BIOGRAPHY

Kun Mean HOU was born in Cambodia in 1956. He held a PhD degree in 1984 and a HDR degree in 1996 in Computer Science from the University of Technology of Compiègne (UTC), France.

He worked as associate professor at UTC from 1984 to 1986. In 1986 he joined IN2 as R&D engineer group leader to develop fault-tolerant super-minicomputer. From 1989 to 1996, he created a research group, which investigated parallel architecture dedicated to real-time image processing at laboratory HEUDIASYC UMR 6599 CNRS (UTC).

In 1997 he joined the college of engineering school ‘ISIMA: Institut Supérieur d’Informatique de Modélisation et de leurs Applications’ as full professor, where he created the SMIR ‘Systèmes Multisensoriels Intelligents intégrés et Répartis’ team of the laboratory LIMOS UMR 6158 CNRS (10 researchers). SMIR team focuses on the development of core technologies: basic hardware and software dedicated to Wireless Sensor Network or IoT. Different IoT nodes (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and ZigBee), embedded wireless communication and embedded real-time kernel (SDREAM, LIMOS and HEROS) are implemented and deployed in different applications such as telemedicine, intelligent transportation system and precision agriculture. He holds 6 patents, 2 APPs and he participated in 3 EU projects and 20 technology transfers as scientific leader. He published more than 140 papers in the journals and internal conferences. He is serving in several scientific committees and boards. He is an ICT-AGRI EU expert. Currently, he is researcher at IRSTEA Clermont-Ferrand and he is investigating the smart farming 4.0.