Emerging Technologies for Precision Agriculture
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2025) | Viewed by 3662
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Interests: sustainable agriculture; crop production; plant nutrition; crop management; precision agriculture; IoT and AI in crop management
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Dear Colleagues,
Currently, the pace of increase in environmental pollution caused by food production is more rapid than the formulation of answers by science. The two fundamental tasks are as follows: 1. to meet sustainability criteria within the production units and 2. to continuously expand the technical information systems (IoT, WSN, drone monitoring) to enhance the synergy of natural and agricultural areas. The intensive development of IoT is increasingly leading us to talk about IoE (Internet of Everything). Through IoT, we can also examine the relationship network of events that are spatially and temporally distant from each other. One example is when pests (insects) appear up to 40–50 km away from our crop area, and the IoT system provides detailed information about the characteristics of the insects and makes recommendations for pest control. There is also continuous signaling of the direction and speed at which insect swarms are moving. In this area, M2M, decision making without human intervention, can also appear. The two major areas of sensor development that are outstanding are as follows: 1. Lab2Field, where in the laboratory, in addition to fixed environmental characteristics, precisely functioning instruments are adapted to field conditions, such as the instrument (artificial tongue, nose, and ear) and 2. Chipless, i.e., wireless sensors that degrade in the soil or in human and animal bodies. The latter are significant for frozen foods. Nanotechnology opens new windows in the development of agricultural sensors. All the above contribute to Hands Free Hectar (Harper Adams University, UK), unmanned cultivation technology, which can reduce environmental pollution without significantly affecting yields. On the other hand, there is a growing demand for reducing soil compaction. Seeder robots operating in rows, small smart data-gathering robots that can also perform actuator tasks, such as sampling and causing minor soil compaction, contribute to the per plant, ultra-precise platform.
Prof. Dr. Miklós Neményi
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Keywords
- IoT (internet of things)
- WSN (wireless sensor network)
- F2F (from farm to fork)
- M2M (machine to machine)
- Lab2Field (from laboratory to field)
- small smart robots to reduce the soil compaction
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