Application of emerging technologies in insect monitoring and rearing

Abstract

Insects for food and feed is gaining traction because of high nutritional content. However, in<br/>large scale rearing, harvesting and processing insects for food and feed is still a challenge<br/>largely due to manual monitoring. Through the advances in technology, computing power<br/>and communications, it is now possible to generate and analyze massive data in real time.<br/>This lends itself to automation, remote sensing and relaying of massive data using Internet of<br/>Things (IoT). Counting, measurements of insects and their traits, modelling which may result<br/>into prediction can be successfully done using Machine Learning (ML). Image acquisition and<br/>signal processing is made possible through the use of Computer Vision (CV) while the insect<br/>content analysis is achieved through the use spectroscopy.