Journal:Food informatics: Review of the current state-of-the-art, revised definition, and classification into the research landscape
| Full article title | Food informatics: Review of the current state-of-the-art, revised definition, and classification into the research landscape |
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| Journal | Foods |
| Author(s) | Krupitzer, Christian; Stein, Anthony |
| Author affiliation(s) | University of Hohenheim |
| Primary contact | christian dot krupitzer at uni-hohenheim dot de |
| Editors | Jaiswal, Amit K. |
| Year published | 2021 |
| Volume and issue | 10(11) |
| Article # | 2889 |
| DOI | 10.3390/foods10112889 |
| ISSN | 2304-8158 |
| Distribution license | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International |
| Website | https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/10/11/2889/htm |
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Abstract
Background: The increasing population of humans and their changing food consumption behavior, as well as the recent developments in the awareness for food sustainability, lead to new challenges for the production of food. Advances in the internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) technology, including machine learning and data analytics, might help to account for these challenges.
Scope and approach: Several research perspectives—among them precision agriculture, industrial IoT, internet of food, and smart health—already provide new opportunities through digitalization. In this paper, we review the current state-of-the-art of the mentioned concepts. An additional concept to address is food informatics, which so far is mostly recognized as a mainly data-driven approach to support the production of food. In this review paper, we propose and discuss a new perspective for the concept of food informatics as a supportive discipline that subsumes the incorporation of information technology, mainly IoT and AI, in order to support the variety of aspects tangential to the food production process and delineate it from other existing research streams in the domain.
Key Findings and conclusions: Many different concepts related to digitalization in food science overlap. Further, food informatics is vaguely defined. In this paper, we provide a clear definition of food informatics and delineate it from related concepts. We corroborate our new perspective on food informatics by presenting several case studies about how it can support food production (as well as the intermediate steps until its consumption), and further describe its integration with related concepts.
Keywords: food informatics, internet of things, precision agriculture, smart agriculture, internet of food, food computing, food supply chain management
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