IoT-enabled Smart Farming with Intelligent Sensors
1Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea
2Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
3Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
IoT-enabled Smart Farming with Intelligent Sensors
Description
Recent developments in Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology have enabled a new paradigm of smart farming managing agricultural produce, land, and animals more effectively and efficiently. The most critical requirement in developing smart agriculture is the inclusion of “Things”-oriented sensor network systems, which require sensors with high integration, intelligence, ubiquitous connectivity, security, and energy independence. This is arguably more important than the use of “Internet”-oriented cloud computing with big data analysis.
This special issue seeks to make in-depth contributions to feasible solutions for “Thing”-oriented intelligent sensor systems, rather than “Internet”-oriented cloud-based systems. The focus is on the implementation of edge-based devices for producing, processing, and transferring a large amount of data which can be reliably utilized to interpret the past and predict the future, in order to make more timely or accurate decisions, both in sustainable/productive agriculture and in livestock applications.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Edge-based sensor systems in smart farming
- Low energy machine-learning algorithms for edge-based sensors in smart farming
- Energy harvesting (image) sensor systems in smart farming
- Advanced image processing techniques and applications in smart farming
- Emerging IoT-based sensor applications in smart farming
- Sensing hardware platforms in smart farming
- Security solutions for sensing hardware in smart farming
- Energy efficient network-based analysis in smart farming
- Low energy wireless connectivity solutions for smart farming (LoRa, NB-IoT, etc.)
- Multimodal sensor integration in smart farming
- Emerging sensing methods (hyperspectral imaging, compressed sensing, etc.)