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How a hybrid photodiode sensor could help solve a $750bn food waste problem

Abdel Ruvalcaba-Perez, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

"A sensor cheap enough to place on every piece of equipment already moving through an orchard, reading a signal the fruit was providing all along, is a step toward replacing that guess with actual metrics," says Abdel Ruvalcaba-Perez from Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Image: Abdel Ruvalcaba-Perez)

P100 honouree Abdel Ruvalcaba-Perez details his team’s research into a miniature multispectral sensor array that could be fitted to every machine on the farm

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