Special Issue "Internet of Things (IoT) for Precision Agriculture Practices"
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Digital Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2022) | Viewed by 30380
Special Issue Editor

Interests: sensor interfaces; microelectronics; wireless sensor networks; IoT; precision viticulture; energy harvesting; proximal sensing
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Dear Colleagues,
The global population is increasing significantly and is foreseen to reach 8.5 billion by 2030 and 9.7 billion in 2050. This increase, together with current and new environmental requirements, demands new agriculture production methods. Mature technologies are now available that rely on intelligent sensor networks and remote monitoring—using both satellites and UAVs—to acquire crop-related data and can be coupled with the use of collaborative robots for the execution of many of the agricultural operations. The applications of such technologies include forecasting models of harvest, creating real-time productivity maps, detecting spectral signatures of diseases and pests, and applying artificial intelligence for use in machine–machine processes.
Internet of Things (IoT) is part of this announced revolution. Now more than ever, it makes sense. Considering concerns about the environment and economic sustainability, the optimization of agricultural practice efficiency through the application of the latest computing and sensing technologies in order to save resources and manage all issues raised by the climate emergency is clearly the way forward.
This Special Issue covers precision agriculture (PA), smart farming, IoT, Internet of Everything (IoE), cloud and fog computing, big data, data analytics, and machine learning, as these are emergent technological topics that are becoming quite popular when addressing the sustainable management of agricultural practices with ecological awareness.
Prof. Dr. Raul MoraisGuest Editor
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Keywords
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Wireless sensor networks
- Precision agriculture
- Field servers
- Smart sensors
- Sensor fusion
- Data integration
- Fog computing
- Big data
- Data analytics
- Machine learning