Publication - Mobile Computing, Spatial Intelligence, and Interoperability for Agricultural Field Data

This is our most recent publication:

Schuster, Edmund W., Lee, Hyoung-Gon, 2010. Mobile computing, spatial intelligence, and interoperability for agricultural field data. Cutter IT Journal 23:9, 28-34.

The article is about our work in data-driven agriculture.

A quote:

"A somewhat overlooked facet of mobile computing is that various devices can be useful ways to input data for sharing through the Internet. Rather than data and information being produced and distributed in a top-to-bottom manner under centrally controlled circumstances, mobile computing allows perhaps millions of people to become observers and, in some regards, the equivalent of intelligent sensors for their immediate surroundings.

Given the difficulty and cost of establishing robust, pervasive sensor networks that include adequate mobility and communication, the alternative of human sensing, communicated through devices such as 3G cell phones, is rapidly emerging as a distinct discipline within the broader area of mobile computing. The faint beginnings of this shock wave of change are just now being felt in several industries, though for years academics have been considering the possibilities of such things as collective intelligence, considered by some as a subset of crowdsourcing."