In solving the food crisis at the beginning of the XXI century when the World population recorded in October
2011 was 7 billion people and with a projected global population surpassing 9 billion people by 2050 ,
potato turns out to be a product of great importance. Potato is a valuable food, considered by FAO as an
important pillar in improving safety food worldwide.Potato crop profitability can be achieved only by increasing the yield per hectare and production quality. In this
context, modern technologies such as precision agriculture that are based on mechatronics engineering should ensure productivity and high profitability of potato crops, in addition to environmental protection and
natural resources preservation. In reality, the biggest problem with precision agriculture is in fact the amount of data
acquired that can be difficult to interpret and very often overwhelming , but this issue is
becoming less and less problematic as computing power and communication interfaces between different networked
systems are becoming more powerful, more user friendly and less expensive. Today, precision agriculture is
considered an application of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), the brand-new concept that rests on the foundation of
theory of cybernetics, the practice of mechatronic design and the emergence of design and process science as can be seen in Figure 1.