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Application of Internet-of-Things Technologies in Precision Agriculture

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (16 June 2023) | Viewed by 1533

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Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics Laboratory, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Interests: data mining; pattern recognition; IoAT

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Department of Computer Science, Islamia College Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan
Interests: IoAT; machine learning; information security; data mining; deep learning

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Dear Colleagues,

Precision agriculture is among the most essential Internet of Things applications. Predicting natural circumstances and responding as early as feasible to them is crucial for the efficiency and profitability of agriculture. The Internet of Agriculture Things (IoAT) is a new route in agriculture that has seen tremendous growth. For centuries, agriculture has been a source of survival for humanity and a major source of employment as well. Agriculture is the key industry that will provide this huge population with food and support worldwide sustainable economic development. IoT, AI (Artificial Intelligence), and other cutting-edge technology have made agricultural processes more specialized and highly optimized. The optimization of agricultural practice efficiency through the use of the IoAT and sensor technologies not only saves resources but also can control environmental risks and economic sustainability. With the advancement in IoT technology, there are so many factors that need to be considered for the development of smart agriculture like soil preparation, water requirements, yield prediction, and pest control. Throughout the entire growing and harvesting cycle, farmers could be assisted with IoAT to cope with intelligence, ubiquitous sensing, and secured network connectivity. In this Special Issue, we anticipate many techniques on how IoT technologies might be employed to enhance data collection quality and precision agriculture. Some interesting subjects include, but are not limited to:

  • Smart sensors for farming system
  • Internet of Things
  • IoT multi-sensors
  • Wireless network
  • Sustainable agricultural system
  • Communication connectivity
  • Machine learning
  • Precision agriculture using edge computing
  • Data security for IoAT
  • Big data
  • Cloud computing 

Dr. Amjad Rehman
Dr. Khalid Haseeb
Guest Editors

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An Advanced Energy-Efficient Environmental Monitoring in Precision Agriculture Using LoRa-Based Wireless Sensor Networks
by Višnja Križanović, Krešimir Grgić, Josip Spišić and Drago Žagar
Sensors 2023, 23(14), 6332; https://doi.org/10.3390/s23146332 - 12 Jul 2023
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Abstract
Sensor networks, as a special subtype of wireless networks, consist of sets of wirelessly connected sensor nodes often placed in hard-to-reach environments. Therefore, it is expected that sensor nodes will not be powered from the power grid. Instead, sensor nodes have their own [...] Read more.
Sensor networks, as a special subtype of wireless networks, consist of sets of wirelessly connected sensor nodes often placed in hard-to-reach environments. Therefore, it is expected that sensor nodes will not be powered from the power grid. Instead, sensor nodes have their own power sources, the replacement of which is often impractical and requires additional costs, so it is necessary to ensure minimum energy consumption. For that reason, the energy efficiency of wireless sensor networks used for monitoring environmental parameters is essential, especially in remote networking scenarios. In this paper, an overview of the latest research progress on wireless sensor networks based on LoRa was provided. Furthermore, analyses of energy consumption of sensor nodes used in agriculture to observe environmental parameters were conducted using the results of real measurements in the field, as well as simulations carried out based on collected data about real equipment. Optimization methods of energy consumption, in terms of choosing the appropriate data collection processes from the conducted field measurements, as well as the settings of network radio parameters imitating real conditions used in conducted simulations were highlighted. In the analyses, special emphasis was placed on choosing the optimal packet size. Unlike in other papers analyzing energy efficiency of LoRa communication, in this paper, it was proven that the adjustment of the transmission speed to the actual size of the packet is important for better energy efficiency of communication and that it can reduce energy consumption considerably. Moreover, in the paper, the contents of a packet that can be used in precision agriculture is suggested in order to prove that the 6-bit packet is sufficient for energy-efficient collection of parameters from the environment, in contrast to the 11-bit packets used in standard commercially available equipment. Full article
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