Nick Sigrimis
Laboratory of Machines and Automation
Division of Agricultural Structures and Agricultural Machinery
Department of Natural Resources Management and Agricultural Engineering
Agricultural University of Athens
Expertise: RESEARCH INTERESTS Application Fields of: Environmental management, weather modifications operations, energy systems, Water Resource Management, Water Network Management, Plant and Animal Factories, Hydroponics, Integrated Production Management, Food Traceability, GIS and Precision Agriculture, Robotics for agricultural processes, advanced automation applications, mechanisation and automation in Agriculture, SCADA systems. Basic Fields of: Operations research, code design, analysis and design of optimal control systems, instrumentation and signal processing, RFID and Traceability, systems engineering, process control, biological modelling, bio-electronics and biosensors, neural networks, fuzzy systems. ACTIVITY Professor of Instrumentation and Control in Ag. Engineering and President of the spinoff company Geomations SA. Coordinates several European and Greek multi-party research projects. He is a member of CIGR, ASAE, IEEE and IFAC and serves as member, or past chair, of several Technical Committees and has published over 80 journal, conference papers, special issues and book chapters. Member of the Editorial Board of several journals. Facility: Experimental Greenhouse, Hydroponics, Electronics lab and embedded systems developement Software developemnt and final product launch and manage A spinoff company with research, development, commercialization, fabrication facilities Priority: Actions: Research, Teaching, Research exploitation, research results commercialization Topics: ICT, automation, sensors, instrumentation, software, DSS Applications: Greenhouses, Fisheries, Hydroponics, Irrigation, Fertigation, Traceability of Food Results: Results of research are ported to spinoff Geomations SA (SME) for exploitation