The SmartAg initiative introduces a range of advanced technologies aimed at reinventing and modernizing farming methods. Key highlights include:

• Multi/hyperspectral visual, lidar, and microwave sensing
• Data analytics and visualization: machine vision/deep learning
• Sensors for volatile organics and chemicals, lab on a chip
• Autonomous farmbots and drones
• Phenomics to genomics
• Connectivity: communications, antennas, signals
• Data science, regional view of plant stresses
• Animal health monitoring – lab in a chip
• Sustainability, optimization
• Food sterilization (UV, cold plasma, gamma)
• Smart packaging: functionalized thin films, 2D printed labels with RFID transponders
• Food supply chain authenticity, traceability via blockchain
• Ethics, policy, standards, transparency
• IOT cloud connectivity and control across supply chain