Australian AgTech

Q2 Social Sciences

Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy Pub Date : 2022-03-16 DOI:10.18080/jtde.v10n1.464

John M. Canning

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Abstract

The government AgriTech Expert Working Group has provided a detailed overview of the practical challenges domestic Australian farmers have to deal with when digitising their farms through the implementation of connected sensor technologies, motivated by the predicted growth of the sector to AUD 100 billion by 2030. In addressing these issues, of which connectivity and access to wireless technologies along with unreliable sensor performances over time remain prominent, domestic regional specific solutions are sought. A key solution being relied upon are low earth orbital satellites, perhaps the only communication infrastructure that cycles over territorial boundaries and has both regulatory and technical challenges that are not widely considered. The resilience of these solutions is assessed in the context of the agricultural technology, or AgTech, market which is arguably invented and shaped by broader, global interests mostly centred where end-user populations are based. The argument is made that government policy must include the latter within a larger holistic framework, including education, when assessing the future of both agriculture and AgTech markets in Australia. At the core, the AgTech report does highlight some challenges in Australia’s wider research approach.

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政府AgriTech专家工作组详细概述了澳大利亚国内农民在通过实施连接传感器技术实现农场数字化时必须应对的实际挑战，预计到2030年该行业将增长到1000亿澳元。在解决这些问题时，随着时间的推移，无线技术的连接和访问以及传感器性能不可靠仍然是突出的问题，因此需要寻求国内区域特定的解决方案。目前所依赖的一个关键解决方案是低地球轨道卫星，这可能是唯一一种在领土边界上循环的通信基础设施，它在管理和技术方面都存在挑战，但没有得到广泛考虑。这些解决方案的弹性是在农业技术或农业技术市场的背景下评估的，该市场可以说是由主要以最终用户群体为中心的更广泛的全球利益所发明和塑造的。有人认为，在评估澳大利亚农业和农业技术市场的未来时，政府政策必须将后者纳入一个更大的整体框架，包括教育。从本质上讲，农业科技报告确实强调了澳大利亚更广泛的研究方法中的一些挑战。

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Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy Social Sciences-Communication

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