research ideas

Dr. J. S. Judd (judd@scr.siemens.com)
Thu, 21 Nov 1996 20:51:13 -0500

I work for a high-tech electronics firm that is looking for ideas for
new products for agriculture. We make sensors, actuators and "smarts"
that could be attached to or embedded within farming & processing equipment.

What electronic devices do YOU THINK would make a contribution toward
sustainable agriculture?
Allow yourself to imagine things that are not quite possible today...
For example, a weeding device that would merely look at a weed and remove
it mechanically (rather than chemically).

Give your imagination free range over
quality monitors,
production equipment,
harvesting equipment,
preserving equipment,
transportation stuff,
efficiency enhancers,
any other categories.

Reply privately, or on the mail group here so we might stimulate each other.
Don't filter your ideas too heavily... let us techno nerds decide how
ambitious we can afford to be.
sj

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Dr. J. S. Judd
Siemens Corporate Research, telephone: (609) 734-6573
755 College Rd, East fax: (609) 734-6565
Princeton, NJ USA 08540 email: judd@scr.siemens.com
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