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Smart Farming Technology Research Center (SFTRC)

ABOUT US

Smart Farming Technology Research Centre (SFTRC), UPM, has been involved in researches on the farming management concept using modern technology to increase the quantity and quality of agricultural products. The research centre addresses a wide spectrum of topics in recent agricultural engineering and technologies development including appropriate mechanisation; agricultural automation; smart cultivation practices; green and zero waste technology; GPS/GIS; remote sensing; soil scanning; agricultural informatics; and Internet of Things technologies. The centre had made significant contribution in this area including the establishment of an ICT centre called Smart Farming Community Centre in Tanjung Karang Selangor supported by the ICT section of the Ministry of Science & Innovation in 2005. At the centre, the researchers teach farmers in the community how to use computers and use ICT to manage their farm. They’ve created a custom website where the farmers can access fertility maps for their fields and track their activities throughout the growing season. Through this program, about 30 farmers in Tanjung Karang are enrolled in the centre’s precision program. And in the nine years since the project began, the area has upped production from 4 metric tons per hectare (the national average) to more than 6 metric tons per hectare. The group has published more than 568 articles in prestigious journals over the past ten years. It has successfully produced 539 postgraduates in smart farming studies. The group has conducted contract research worth millions of ringgit at national and international level particularly in agricultural engineering and precision agriculture researches.

VISION

To lead the charge in enhancing technological advancement in precision agriculture

MISSION

To build innovative technological solutions and services in agriculture through advanced researches; development efforts; and technological diffusion in engineering and sciences

RESEARCH AREA

Precision Agriculture

STAFF

No.	Name	Email
1.	Mr. Ezrin Mohd Husin	ezrin@upm.edu.my

KEY RESEARCHERS

No.	Name	Email
1.	Professor Ir. Dr. Desa Ahmad	desa@upm.edu.my
2.	Profesor Dr. Abdul Rashid b. Mohamed Shariff	rashidpls@upm.edu.my
3.	Associate Professor Dr. Samsuzana Abd Aziz	samsuzana@upm.edu.my
4.	Associate Professor Dr. Siti Khairuniza Bejo	skbjeo@upm.edu.my
5.	Associate Professor Ir. Dr. Norhashila Hashim	norhashila@upm.edu.my
6.	Associate Professor Dr. Hasfalina bt. Che Man	hasfalina@upm.edu.my
7.	Dr. Aimrun Wayayok	aimrun@upm.edu.my
8.	Dr. Muhammad Razif b. Mahadi	razifman@upm.edu.my
9.	Dr. Nazmi Mat Nawi	nazmimat@upm.edu.my

RESEARCH FACILITIES

N-Sensor

New Holland Tractor

GPS Receivers (RTK, DGPS, Handheld)

Veris EC Sensor

Penetrologger

River Profiler and Catamaran

Keyence Color Vision System

Multiprobe Water Quality Sensor

Liquid Dielectric Test Fixture (16452A Keysight)

Dielectric Test Fixture (1645B Keysight)

UAV for crop minitoring

ACTIVE RESEARCH GRANTS

No.	Project Leader	Research Title	Date Start	Date End	Approved Amount (RM)
1	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Samsuzana Abd Aziz	Management and Information System for Hydroponic Culture System	2019	2020	RM122,500
2	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Samsuzana Abd Aziz	Utilization of Smartphone and Cloud Computing to Determine Nitrogen Status Based on Chlorophyll Content of Plant Leaf	2019	2020	RM25,000
3	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Samsuzana Abd Aziz	Development of Energy-efficient, Long-range Communication System for Environmental Monitoring using Low Power Wide Area Networks for Internet of Things	2018	2019	RM119,000
4	Dr. Md Rowshon Kamal	Development of Climate-Smart Irrigation Scheduling For IADA KETARA Irrigation Scheme	2018	2019	RM 20,000
5	Dr. Nazmi Mat Nawi	Measurement of Field Performance for Different Machinery Used In Rice Production and Their Effects on Soil Compaction	2018	2020	RM25,000
6	Dr. Diyana Jamaludin	LED Supplemental Lighting in Rockmelon Production For Building Integrated Agriculture	2018	2020	RM60,000
7	Prof Dr. Azmi Yahya	Optimum Waterwheel Design for Power Generation in A Primary Irrigation Canal Of A Rice Scheme Area	2018	2020	RM25,000
8	Prof Dr. Azmi Yahya	Traction Performances of Off-Road Floatation Tires Running On Low Bearing Capacity Terrain	2018	2020	RM25,000
9	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Norhashila Hashim	Kelulut Honey As Edible Coating For Quality Preservation And Shelf Life Extension Of Carica Papaya L	2018	2020	RM25,000
10	Dr. Nazmi Mat Nawi	Determination of Optimum Drying Conditions of Mobile Dryer For Malaysian Field Corn Production	2018	2020	RM50,000
11	Dr. Mohamad Firdza Bin Mohamad Shukery	Optimal Planning Of Biomass Facility for Sustainable Oil Palm Biomass Management	2018	2020	RM58,000
12	Dr. Muhammad Hazwan Bin Hamzah	Co-Digestion of Pineapple Waste for Mesophilic Bio-Methane Production	2018	2020	RM60,000
13	Dr. Sharence A/L Nai Sowat	Design of Lightweight Cutting and Gear Mechanism for Harvesting Of Oil Palm Fresh Fruit Bunches (FFB)	2018	2020	RM60,000
14	Dr. Mahirah Jahari	Machine Vision System for Rice Quality Evaluation Using Fluorescence Technique	2018	2020	. RM60,000

PUBLICATION LIST FOR 2018

No.	Authors	Tittle	Journal	Vol	Issue	Page Start	Page End
1	Onwude D.I., Hashim N., Abdan K., Janius R., Chen G., Kumar C.	Modelling of coupled heat and mass transfer for combined infrared and hot-air drying of sweet potato	Journal of Food Engineering	228		12	24
2	Razak J.A.B.A., Shariff A.R.B.M., Ahmad N.B., Ibrahim Sameen M.	Mapping rubber trees based on phenological analysis of Landsat time series data-sets	Geocarto International	33	6	627	650
3	Asim M., Jawaid M., Abdan K., Ishak M.R.	The Effect of Silane Treated Fibre Loading on Mechanical Properties of Pineapple Leaf/Kenaf Fibre Filler Phenolic Composites	Journal of Polymers and the Environment	26	4	1520	1527
4	Onwude D.I., Hashim N., Abdan K., Janius R., Chen G.	The potential of computer vision, optical backscattering parameters and artificial neural network modelling in monitoring the shrinkage of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.) during drying	Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture	98	4	1310	1324
5	Khosrokhani M., Khairunniza-Bejo S., Pradhan B.	Geospatial technologies for detection and monitoring of Ganoderma basal stem rot infection in oil palm plantations: a review on sensors and techniques	Geocarto International	33	3	260	276
6	Sowat S.N., Wan Ismail W.I., Mahadi M.R., Bejo S.K., Kassim M.S.M.	Trend in the development of oil palm fruit harvesting technologies in Malaysia	Jurnal Teknologi	80	2	83	91
7	Ilahi W.F.F., Ahmad D., Husain M.C.	Correction to: Effects of Root Zone Cooling on Butterhead Lettuce Grown in Tropical Conditions in a Coir-Perlite Mixture (Horticulture, Environment, and Biotechnology, (2017), 58, 1, (1-4), 10.1007/s13580-017-0123-3)	Horticulture Environment and Biotechnology	59	1	139	140
8	Khaled A.Y., Abd Aziz S., Bejo S.K., Nawi N.M., Seman I.A., Onwude D.I.	Early detection of diseases in plant tissue using spectroscopy–applications and limitations	Applied Spectroscopy Reviews	53	1	36	64
9	Khaled A.Y., Abd Aziz S., Rokhani F.Z., Ibrahim N.U.A.	Interdigitated electrode for degradation assessment of palm olein during batch deep fat frying	Transactions of the ASABE	61	1	15	24
10	Khaled A.Y., Abd Aziz S., Bejo S.K., Nawi N.M., Abu Seman I.	Spectral features selection and classification of oil palm leaves infected by Basal stem rot (BSR) disease using dielectric spectroscopy	Computers and Electronics in Agriculture	144		297	309
11	Ali M.M., Janius R.B., Nawi N.M., Hashim N.	Prediction of total soluble solids and pH in banana using near infrared spectroscopy	Journal of Engineering Science and Technology	13	1	254	264
12	Hashim N., Adebayo S.E., Abdan K., Hanafi M.	Comparative study of transform-based image texture analysis for the evaluation of banana quality using an optical backscattering system	Postharvest Biology and Technology	135		38	50
13	Zin M.H., Abdan K., Norizan M.N., Mazlan N.	The effects of alkali treatment on the mechanical and chemical properties of banana fibre and adhesion to epoxy resin	Pertanika Journal of Science and Technology	26	1	161	176
14	Lin M.G., Lasekan O., Saari N., Khairunniza-Bejo S.	Effect of chitosan and carrageenan-based edible coatings on post-harvested longan (Dimocarpus longan) fruits [Efecto de los recubrimientos comestibles a base de chitosano y carragenano en los frutos de longan (Dimocarpus longan) después de la cosecha]	CYTA - Journal of Food	16	1	490	497
15	Asim M., Jawaid M., Abdan K., Ishak M.R., Alothman O.Y.	Effect of Hybridization on the Mechanical Properties of Pineapple Leaf Fiber/Kenaf Phenolic Hybrid Composites	Journal of Renewable Materials	6	1	38	46
16	Shamshiri R.R., Kalantari F., Ting K.C., Thorp K.R., Hameed I.A., Weltzien C., Ahmad D., Shad Z.M.	Advances in greenhouse automation and controlled environment agriculture: A transition to plant factories and urban agriculture	International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering	11	1	1	22
17	Onwude D.I., Hashim N., Abdan K., Janius R., Chen G.	Combination of computer vision and backscattering imaging for predicting the moisture content and colour changes of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.) during drying	Computers and Electronics in Agriculture	150		178	187
18	Ahmadzadeh Araji H., Wayayok A., Massah Bavani A., Amiri E., Abdullah A.F., Daneshian J., Teh C.B.S.	Impacts of climate change on soybean production under different treatments of field experiments considering the uncertainty of general circulation models	Agricultural Water Management	205		63	71
19	Mo'allim A.A., Kamal M.R., Muhammed H.H., Yahaya N.K.E.M., Zawawe M.A.B.M., Man H.C., Wayayok A.	An assessment of the vertical movement of water in a flooded paddy rice field experiment using Hydrus-1D	Water (Switzerland)	10	6
20	Mo'allim A.A., Kamal M.R., Muhammed H.H., Soom M.A.M., Zawawi M.A.B.M., Wayayok A., Man H.C.	Assessment of nutrient leaching in flooded paddy rice field experiment using hydrus-1D	Water (Switzerland)	10	6
21	Onwude D.I., Hashim N., Abdan K., Janius R., Chen G.	Investigating the influence of novel drying methods on sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.): Kinetics, energy consumption, color, and microstructure	Journal of Food Process Engineering	41	4
22	Hashim N., Onwude D.I., Osman M.S.	Evaluation of Chilling Injury in Mangoes Using Multispectral Imaging	Journal of Food Science	83	5	1271	1279
23	Al-Aqeeli Y.H., Abd Aziz S., Yusuf B., Wayayok A.	Evaluation of single reservoir performance for flood risk reduction using a developed simulation model: Case study of Makhoul reservoir	Pertanika Journal of Science and Technology	26	2	571	584
24	Norizan M.N., Abdan K., Salit M.S., Mohamed R.	The effect of alkaline treatment on the mechanical properties of treated sugar palm yarn fibre reinforced unsaturated polyester composites reinforced with different fibre loadings of sugar palm fibre	Sains Malaysiana	47	4	699	705
25	Shamshiri R.R., Jones J.W., Thorp K.R., Ahmad D., Man H.C., Taheri S.	Review of optimum temperature, humidity, and vapour pressure deficit for microclimate evaluation and control in greenhouse cultivation of tomato: A review	International Agrophysics	32	2	287	302
26	Khaled A.Y., Abd Aziz S., Khairunniza Bejo S., Mat Nawi N., Abu Seman I., Izzuddin M.A.	Development of classification models for basal stem rot (BSR) disease in oil palm using dielectric spectroscopy	Industrial Crops and Products	124		99	107
27	Onwude D.I., Hashim N., Abdan K., Janius R., Chen G.	Modelling the mid-infrared drying of sweet potato: kinetics, mass and heat transfer parameters, and energy consumption	Heat and Mass Transfer/Waerme- und Stoffuebertragung	54	10	2917	2933
28	Abdulsalam M., Man H.C., Idris A.I., Yunos K.F., Abidin Z.Z.	Treatment of palm oil mill effluent using membrane bioreactor: Novel processes and their major drawbacks	Water (Switzerland)	10	9
29	Alias A.H., Tahir P.M., Abdan K., Salit M.S., Wahab M.S., Saiman M.P.	Evaluation of kenaf yarn properties as affected by different linear densities for woven fabric laminated composite production	Sains Malaysiana	47	8	1853	1860
30	Ng J.L., Abd Aziz S., Huang Y.F., Wayayok A., Rowshon M.	Generation of a stochastic precipitation model for the tropical climate	Theoretical and Applied Climatology	133	1-Feb	489	509
31	Jayaselan H.A.J., Ismail W.I.W., Nawi N.M., Shariff A.R.M.	Determination of the optimal pre-processing technique for spectral data of oil palm leaves with respect to nutrient	Pertanika Journal of Science and Technology	26	3	1169	1182
32	Hilal Y.Y., Ishak W., Yahya A., Asha’ari Z.H.	Development of genetic algorithm for optimization of yield models in oil palm production	Chilean Journal of Agricultural Research	78	2	228	237
33	Khairunnniza-Bejo S., Ramli N., Muharam F.M.	Wireless sensor network (WSN) applications in plantation canopy areas: A review	Asian Journal of Scientific Research	11	2	151	161
34	Shamshiri R.R., Weltzien C., Hameed I.A., Yule I.J., Grift T.E., Balasundram S.K., Pitonakova L., Ahmad D., Chowdhary G.	Research and development in agricultural robotics: A perspective of digital farming	International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering	11	4	1	14
35	Aisyah H.A., Paridah M.T., Khalina A., Sapuan S.M., Wahab M.S., Berkalp O.B., Lee C.H., Lee S.H.	Effects of fabric counts and weave designs on the properties of LaminatedWoven Kenaf/Carbon fibre reinforced epoxy hybrid composites	Polymers	10	12
36	Baharudin M.R., Nasruddin H.N., Rahman A.A., Mahadi M.R., Noor S.B.M.	Numerical model for individual time calculation for evacuation among secondary students	International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation	36	5	450	470
37	Abdulsalam M., Man H.C., Idris A.I., Abidin Z.Z., Yunos K.F.	The pertinence of microwave irradiated coconut shell bio-sorbent for wastewater decolourization: Structural morphology and adsorption optimization using the response surface method (RSM)	International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health	15	10
38	Onwude D.I., Hashim N., Abdan K., Janius R., Chen G.	Numerical modeling of radiative heat and mass transfer for sweet potato during drying	Journal of Food Processing and Preservation	42	10
39	Rowshon M.K., Iqbal M., Mojid M.A., Amin M.S.M., Lai S.H.	Optimization of equitable irrigation water delivery for a large-scale rice irrigation scheme	International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering	11	5	160	166
40	Hamzah N.H.C., Yahya A., Man H.C., Baharuddin A.S.	Effect of pretreatments on compost production from shredded oil palm empty fruit bunch with palm oil mill effluent anaerobic sludge and chicken manure	BioResources	13	3	4998	5012
41	Jayaselan H.A.J., Nawi N.M., Ismail W.I.W., Mehdizadeh S.A.	Application of artificial neural network classification to determine nutrient content in oil palm leaves	Applied Engineering in Agriculture	34	3	497	504