Talks and presentations

Digital Twins in Retail: Optimizing Refrigerated Storage for Sustainable Food Systems

October 03, 2024

3 Minute Thesis (3 MT) Competition, University of Florida, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Gainesville, FL, USA

I presented a framework for implementing digital twins in retail refrigeration systems, highlighting how this technology can address critical challenges in food sustainability. The work demonstrates how digital counterparts of refrigerated display cases can enable real-time optimization, helping reduce the 3.2 trillion pounds of food waste while minimizing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in cold chain systems.

Enhancing Food Systems Efficiency: A Digital Twin Implementation in Refrigerated Retail Storage

March 06, 2024

Poster Symposium, University of Florida, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Gainesville, FL, USA

I presented research on implementing digital twin technology for refrigerated retail storage systems. The presentation outlined how digital twins can enhance food systems efficiency by creating virtual representations of physical retail storage units. The discussion covered several key aspects: the challenges facing global food systems, the application of digital twin technology for temperature monitoring and inventory management, and methods to reduce energy consumption while maintaining food quality. I also demonstrated how this implementation could help address broader sustainability goals in retail food storage by enabling real-time data analysis and predictive maintenance.

Digital Twins Reference Architecture for Sustainable Management of Fresh Produce

March 09, 2023

Poster Symposium, University of Florida, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Gainesville, FL, USA

During the poster symposium, I shared a reference architecture outlining how to sustainably implement digital twins to manage fresh produce in a refrigerated retail case. The discussion also covered the scalability of this architecture within the fresh produce supply chain.