Empowerment for Digitalization Skills in Agriculture with the TERRATECH Education Approach

The agricultural IoT infrastructure transformation is enabling crop producers to receive status information from interconnect farms, crops, crop/field, equipment, storage and livestock. Agricultural corporations down to small family farms are now able to monitor the entire plantation ecosystem, spanning from: crop field physical parameters (temperature, light, humidity, soil moisture etc.), plants phenotyping, crops vigour, local climatic conditions and control of operations such as its irrigation and fertilisation through automation solutions (greenhouses). The TERRATECH approach presented in this paper aims to develop an advanced interactive MSc course related to Agriculture IoT Engineering that will train individuals with the necessary skills and knowledge to work in the rising “Smart Agriculture” industry. The course is also formulated to stimulate transversal competences such as the increased sense of initiative and entrepreneurship.