Matthew Tan

James Cook University · Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture

Smart plant factories incorporate sensing technology, actuators and control algorithms to automate processes, reducing the cost of production while improving crop yield many times over that of traditional farms. This paper investigates the growth of lettuce (Lactuca Sativa) in a smart farming setup when exposed to red and blue light-emitting diode...

Opportunities in Aquaculture - A View from WG1 - APEC Policy Partnership on Food Security

I believe in the 4th Industrial Revolution, there will be an acceleration in innovation and the use of technologies (as a results) will have a major impact in the agricultural sectors. It would create new ways of serving existing farmer’s needs and significantly disrupt existing best practices and the way the agricultural industry has been operatin...

Silicon photovoltaics has always dominated commercial manufacturing, with p-type Cz and multi being the wafers of choice. However the light-induced degradation (LID) due to B-O defects has been a major problem for industrial p-type Cz wafers for decades. This has necessitated the use of more lightly doped wafers than would normally be considered op...

Fish are totally dependent upon water to breathe, feed and grow, excrete wastes, maintain a salt balance and reproduce. Massive mortality of fish may occur following dissolved oxygen depletion, toxic algal blooms, or other in-pond water quality problems. To a great extent, water quality determines the success or failure of an aquarium livestock-kee...