Abstract
Having demonstrated its importance for economic and human developments, technological change is considered one of the biggest supports worldwide. Today, with the population increase, the inclusion of technology is considered the most appropriate way to reduce the impact of this challenge. Considering 171 indigenous coffee producers from Paraje Montero and Tierra Colorada from Guerrero, Mexico, the present study proposes technological routes for the indigenous coffee production chain and the inclusion of emerging technologies such as sensors, actuators, and processing devices basing on the requirements of the chain. During face-to-face sessions, questionaries, field visits, and literature review for knowledge management, the results expose the need of effective actions against diseases and the reduction of climate change, lack of infrastructure, old plantations, and lack of commercialization channels; for these and considering the requirement of greenhouse technology by indigenous coffee producers and following the labor value driver of the digital compass, the necessity of several kinds of sensors, technologies, and methodologies has been identified with high possibilities to be implemented by similar producers analyzed in this manuscript to help in solving the problems identified in this work. The combination of remote sensing, signal processing, and spectroscopy could be employed to explore mineralogical features of soil and help problems with fertilization; sensor modules to collect temperature, humidity, and light intensity data are a priority for greenhouse monitoring; electrochemical sensors and optical technologies could be of great help to detect the presence of diseases in coffee plants; and the installation of a greenhouse solar dryer is necessary to reduce the time of the sun drying process and protect the coffee cherry. These emerging technologies will help to improve the production of coffee. The study contributes to identify a technology roadmap proposing technological implements according to indigenous coffee production chain requirements and serves as support for future studies in indigenous regions.
Highlights
The steam machine, infrastructure to get mass and automated production, and currently, the interconnected cyber physical systems, tools, machines, and products used as sensors to gather information for optimal decisionmaking [1] are, and will continue be, one of the biggest supports for economic development and human progress
For pest control, a wireless sensor networks (WSNs) with energy efficiency was used to capture the sound caused by a pest; this sound was later aggregated to cluster head to be conveyed, at the end, to the cluster station [8], in order to send an alarm to control the pest in the coffee crop
Worldwide technologies have been identified as a means of knowledge integration; for small producers, such as the here presented indigenous coffee producers of Paraje Montero and Tierra Colorada from Guerrero, Mexico, and other similar populations and producers, this has not happened yet
Summary
The steam machine, infrastructure to get mass and automated production, and currently, the interconnected cyber physical systems, tools, machines, and products used as sensors to gather information for optimal decisionmaking [1] are, and will continue be, one of the biggest supports for economic development and human progress. Journal of Sensors development and human progress In this sense, the central idea is to fuse information technology and communications in emerging technologies such as sensors, signal processing modules, and precision technology to help in solving the aforementioned problems and to incorporate them to production chains [3]. The importance of incorporating technology to a production chain is fundamental because it increases the value of the products; an example of this is the work presented by [10] and the work to evaluate the impact of genotype and environment on coffee quality [11]. It was important to evaluate, as quantitative as possible, the quality of coffee; it necessitates the use of the electronic nose, volatile organic compound sensors, and colorimetric sensors [8, 12]
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