Victor Grimblatt
Synopsys Chile R&D Center, Latin America
An SoC for IoT Applied to Smart Agriculture
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With the growth of the population and the diminution of the arable land, the humanity could face a food crisis unless technology is applied to agriculture. More food is needed and per FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the united Nations), current agricultural production should be increased by 70% by 2050. The growth of plants depends on several physical parameters such as soil moisture soil pH, soil temperature, etc. Several technological solutions trying to handle these physical parameters have been proposed and implemented, however none of them consider the complete set of parameters and their interaction. The Internet of Things is the right approach to handle the complexity of the problem, however the environment conditions and the complexity of the problem would require a solution that consider edge processing and a communication approach that consider the particularity of the agricultural field. This presentation will provide an overview of a SoC that is being developed to provide an IoT solution for Smart Agriculture. This SoC measures several physical parameters through sensors, analyze them and their interaction, and act according specific algorithms through actuators. A prototype of the system developed on a Synopsys ARC EM Starter Kit will be presented as well as the calibrations methodologies used for the chosen sensors. Some preliminary results will also be presented.
Biography
Victor Grimblatt has an engineering diploma in microelectronics from Institut Nationale Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG ? France) and an electronic engineering diploma from Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (Chile). He is currently R&D Group Director and General Manager of Synopsys Chile, leader in Electronic Design Automation (EDA). He opened the Synopsys Chile R&D Center in 2006. He has expertise and knowledge in business and technology and understands the trends of the electronic industry very well; therefore, he is often consulted for new technological business development. He is also a PhD student at University of Bordeaux where he is developing an IoT system for smart agriculture. He has published several papers in EDA and embedded systems development, and since 2007 he has been invited to several Latin American Conferences (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay) to talk about Circuit Design, EDA, and Embedded Systems. Since 2012 he is chair of the IEEE Chilean chapter of the CASS. He is also the President of the Chilean Electronic and Electrical Industry Association.