The New Agricultural Revolution: From Traditional Farms to Smart Agriculture—New Technologies in Agriculture 5.0

Dear Colleagues,

Crop information is converted into profitable decisions, only when it is managed efficiently. Current advances in open data management are making smart agriculture grow exponentially, as data have become the key element of modern agriculture. The wide variety of sensors that are being used in agriculture generate a huge volume of data. The analysis of these data is done using a special technique known as big data, a new discipline for processing massive data. This discipline uses artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, predictive systems, models, neural networks, and other tools designed to support the decision-making processes. The use of new sensors in agriculture, its communication protocols based on IoT technology (wifi, LoRa, Sigfox, NBIoT, etc,) supported by cloud database and cloud computing, together with these new data processing tools, have resulted in what is known as Agriculture 5.0. In brief, it is about considering agriculture as an industry in which new technological and scientific advances are used to achieve higher productivity with reduced inputs and the lowest possible impact on the environment.

Research articles, communications, case studies, and review articles are all welcome. More specifically, we invite you to contribute to this Issue by submitting original research related to everything concerning the technological aspects and digitisation processes involved in Agriculture 5.0, such as: sensors development and its conectivity, IoT communication protocols, open data, cloud database and computing, big data, AI, predictive systems, and decision-making tools.

Dr. Jorge García Morillo
Prof. Dr. Emilio Camacho Poyato
Dr. Juan Manuel Díaz-Cabrera
Guest Editors

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