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Every year, IBM researchers list "5 in 5" – five ways technology will change the world over the next five years. This year, the main theme is feeding the world using technology to reduce hunger and waste.
5 Great Technological Innovations of 2019: IBM Reveals How They Will Transform All Our LivesAdobe Stock
In the next five years, the world's population will reach 8 billion, one billion of whom will not have access to the food resources necessary for a healthy life.
At the same time, about 45% of the world's food supply is currently lost. Is technology the key to solving the world's food crisis?
Here are five proposed technology solutions that will be debated at the IBM Think conference in San Francisco, which begins today.
Small seeds, digital twins can grow
The concept of building digital twins for us to learn from the simulations has spread throughout the industry, and in agriculture too, it is very promising.
Highly accurate sensors and data collection technology enable to digitally build increasingly detailed and realistic simulations, to experiment with new methods of food production and to increase the efficiency of the production. efficiency and crop yield.
At the same time, the ecological impact of agriculture can be monitored and minimized by allowing us to better understand the interactions between agriculture and the natural environment.
Governments, producers, suppliers of agricultural equipment and food distributors, such as supermarkets, will participate in this process and will be able to collect and share data with each other through their own numerical simulations.
We already see the seeds of this revolution thanks to initiatives such as that of John Deere FarmSight a system that allows farmers to generate and share information based on the data to improve crop yields.
An abundant harvest blockchain
Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies enable food chain actors to monitor and closely track the path of food from seed to plate. With real-time badytics to better understand how food travels through the food chain and waste, producers can make more informed decisions about how much to plant and retailers will know with more information. certainty what are the potential shortages. and surpluses.
Own IBM Food Trust One of the initiatives deployed in this area is to create a secure, tamper-proof and permanent registry of transactions between producers, suppliers, distributors and retailers. One way to define the ultimate goal of such a system is to set up a sensor network, which starts with the capture of the weight of food shipped from farms and ends with an accurate record of the amount of food. goods eliminated by stores and supermarkets because it perished before it can be sold. With these data, artificial intelligence systems can be developed to manage the distribution of food resources wherever it is needed.
Microbiomes – Genetic badysis of bacteria and microbes
Microbes, like bacteria, that enter the human food chain are evolving in the same way as technology. New advances in genetic badysis will make it possible to monitor and profitably track the spread of these microbes and understand their impact on human health around the world.
Microbes, including bacteria, can enter the food chain at any time – on farms, factories and grocery stores – increasing the amount of food while posing a health risk.
Understanding how they travel and interact with the food chain will result in further reduction of food waste and a reduction in the human cost of the disease due to contamination.
Among the advances that will be explored in this area is the IBM Consortium for Sequencing the Food Supply Chain, which has spent the last ten years building the the world's most comprehensive microbial genome database, that it is currently working to make accessible to academic partners.
AI "plate detectives."
This is another technological initiative to mitigate the damage that can be caused by the pathogens responsible for food junk food. This involves deployment artificial intelligence activated sensors – perhaps at home, via mobile devices – capable of detecting dangerous bacteria such as E. coli or salmonella.
Already under development by IBM scientists, mobile bacteria sensors aim to reduce the time needed to test the presence of dangerous pathogens from a few days to seconds.
These developments are aimed at reducing the human cost, especially in regions of the developing world where insufficient access to antibiotics and medical care means that epidemics can be disastrous.
Take in the trash – a revolution in recycling
Advances in recycling technology mean more and more efficient methods of breaking plastics and synthetic polymers are continually being developed.
In addition to raising public awareness of the pollution caused by our reliance on disposable plastic, advances in this area will reduce damage to the ecosphere and reduce the environmental costs of plastics production.
Technological innovations here include new methods of "digesting" catalytic polymers such as VolCat, which involve the development of chemical processes to more efficiently decompose plastic waste into a state that allows it to be reintegrated into the manufacturing process.
This will result in a decrease in fossil fuels used to create a "new" plastic, as well as a reduction in carbon emissions from chemical processes.
IBM Think 2019 the conference will take place from February 12 to 15 and you will see all these ideas discussed live right here.
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Every year, IBM researchers list "5 in 5" – five ways technology will change the world over the next five years. This year, the main theme is feeding the world using technology to reduce hunger and waste.
5 Great Technological Innovations of 2019: IBM Reveals How They Will Transform All Our LivesAdobe Stock
In the next five years, the world's population will reach 8 billion, one billion of whom will not have access to the food resources necessary for a healthy life.
At the same time, about 45% of the world's food supply is currently lost. Is technology the key to solving the world's food crisis?
Here are five proposed technology solutions that will be debated at the IBM Think conference in San Francisco, which begins today.
Small seeds, digital twins can grow
The concept of building digital twins for us to learn from the simulations has spread throughout the industry, and in agriculture too, it is very promising.
Highly accurate sensors and data collection technology enable to digitally build increasingly detailed and realistic simulations, to experiment with new methods of food production and to increase the efficiency of the production. efficiency and crop yield.
At the same time, the ecological impact of agriculture can be monitored and minimized by allowing us to better understand the interactions between agriculture and the natural environment.
Governments, producers, suppliers of agricultural equipment and food distributors, such as supermarkets, will participate in this process and will be able to collect and share data with each other through their own numerical simulations.
We already see the seeds of this revolution thanks to initiatives such as that of John Deere FarmSight a system that allows farmers to generate and share information based on the data to improve crop yields.
An abundant harvest blockchain
Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies enable food chain actors to monitor and closely track the path of food from seed to plate. With real-time badytics to better understand how food travels through the food chain and waste, producers can make more informed decisions about how much to plant and retailers will know with more information. certainty what are the potential shortages. and surpluses.
Own IBM Food Trust One of the initiatives deployed in this area is to create a secure, tamper-proof and permanent registry of transactions between producers, suppliers, distributors and retailers. One way to define the ultimate goal of such a system is to set up a sensor network, which starts with the capture of the weight of food shipped from farms and ends with an accurate record of the amount of food. goods eliminated by stores and supermarkets because it perished before it can be sold. With these data, artificial intelligence systems can be developed to manage the distribution of food resources wherever it is needed.
Microbiomes – Genetic badysis of bacteria and microbes
Microbes, like bacteria, that enter the human food chain are evolving in the same way as technology. New advances in genetic badysis will make it possible to monitor and profitably track the spread of these microbes and understand their impact on human health around the world.
Microbes, including bacteria, can enter the food chain at any time – on farms, factories and grocery stores – increasing the amount of food while posing a health risk.
Understanding how they travel and interact with the food chain will result in further reduction of food waste and a reduction in the human cost of the disease due to contamination.
Among the advances that will be explored in this area is the IBM Consortium for Sequencing the Food Supply Chain, which has spent the last ten years building the the world's most comprehensive microbial genome database, that it is currently working to make accessible to academic partners.
AI "plate detectives."
This is another technological initiative to mitigate the damage that can be caused by the pathogens responsible for food junk food. This involves deployment artificial intelligence activated sensors – perhaps at home, via mobile devices – capable of detecting dangerous bacteria such as E. coli or salmonella.
Already under development by IBM scientists, mobile bacteria sensors aim to reduce the time needed to test the presence of dangerous pathogens from a few days to seconds.
These developments are aimed at reducing the human cost, especially in regions of the developing world where insufficient access to antibiotics and medical care means that epidemics can be disastrous.
Take in the trash – a revolution in recycling
Advances in recycling technology mean more and more efficient methods of breaking plastics and synthetic polymers are continually being developed.
In addition to raising public awareness of the pollution caused by our reliance on disposable plastic, advances in this area will reduce damage to the ecosphere and reduce the environmental costs of plastics production.
Technological innovations here include new methods of "digesting" catalytic polymers such as VolCat, which involve the development of chemical processes to more efficiently decompose plastic waste into a state that allows it to be reintegrated into the manufacturing process.
This will result in a decrease in fossil fuels used to create a "new" plastic, as well as a reduction in carbon emissions from chemical processes.
IBM Think 2019 the conference will take place from February 12 to 15 and you will see all these ideas discussed live right here.
