Methods for post-harvest crop quality management

A method for managing a current post-harvest crop heat treatment in a current storage area, comprising:

• at a server, preparing a training set of heat treatment time series comprising temperature measurements generated by a first plurality of edge devices placed inside a variety of training storage areas, wherein the temperature measurements comprise measurements of a respective local temperature for a respective edge device at a respective location within the respective training storage area across a respective range of time points;
• clustering each time series of the training set of heat treatment time series using a k-shape-based distance method to generate a plurality of time series clusters, each time series cluster having a time axis;
• extracting a respective plurality of cluster centroids for a range of points along the time axis of the respective cluster from the plurality of time series clusters;
• at the server, receiving current temperature measurement data generated by a current plurality of edge devices placed inside the current storage area, wherein the current temperature measurement data comprises one or more measurements of a respective local temperature for a respective edge device at a respective location within the current storage area;
• arranging the temperature measurements into a respective current time series for each respective edge device in the current storage area;
• calculating the sum of squared distances between each current time series and the centroids associated with each time series cluster;
• assigning each current time series to the respective time series cluster associated with the smallest sum of squared distances;
• based on the centroids for each assigned cluster, identifying the expected temperatures at the respective locations within the current storage area for a range of future time points;
• based on the current time series, expected temperatures at the respective locations, and a protocol for pest heat tolerance, providing an estimate of the duration for the current post-harvest crop heat treatment.