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Fighting food waste: how can artificial intelligence and analytics help?

  • Lohithaksha Maiyar
    ,
  • Ram Ramanathan
    ,
  • Lakshmi Belavadi Nagaraja Swamy
    ,
  • Usha Ramanathan
Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter Peer-review

Sustainable Development Goals

  • SDG 2 - Zero Hunger
    SDG 2 Zero Hunger

Abstract

The application domains of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Analytics are ever increasing, specifically in food production globally. The availability of huge amounts of data, machine-to-machine communications, cloud storage, blockchain and the emergence of newer methods of data analytics have helped to kindle renewed interest in AI developments for the European food sector. Some experiences from a large European project, called the REAMIT project, will be used in this chapter to discover the possibilities of using AI to identify causes, patterns, and solutions to the food wastage crisis. Approximately one-third of food produced gets wasted in both developed and developing nations. The REAMIT project uses Internet of Things (IoT) sensors to sense food quality. This chapter will uncover some promising potentials of using AI techniques with sensor data. The various criteria that influence the selection of the right AI tool under various scenarios of the IoT system implementation are captured through a hierarchical multi-criteria framework. This chapter also proposes an innovative analytics framework for food waste reduction which can be adapted widely by individuals and practitioners.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter Peer-review

Host publication Subtitle

Tools for Competitive Advantage

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 171-189 (19 pages)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 10/03/2023

Publication status

Published - 10/03/2023

Publisher

World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc., United States, Singapore

ISBN (Print)

9781800610002

ISBN (Electronic)

9781786349989

Chapter Number

8

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/626915
  • Scopus: 85162618679

Host publication title

Innovation Analytics

Host publication editors

  • Nachiappan Subramanian
  • S G Ponnambalam
  • Mukund Janardhanan

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