IoT for Smart Agriculture

Dear Colleagues,

In the era of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0), the Digital Transformation of nearly everything has been seen as the grand aim. As regards agriculture, Industry 4.0 has imposed its influence to such an extent that we have come to speak about digital agriculture, or, even better, Agriculture 4.0. In this context, smart agriculture can include and integrate all the challenges and innovations, respectively, for the sake of delivering new and improved solutions and services to all the stakeholders (experts, farmers, traders, consumers, etc.). The Internet of Things (IoT), the flagship of Industry 4.0 technologies, by ensuring the ability to acquire in situ measurements remotely and in real time, shifts the interest from just using agricultural wireless sensors networks for solving single problems to considering agriculture in the context of cyberphysical systems to support a better understanding and modeling of physical processes.

This Special Issue aims to gather contributions in the form of original research papers and a limited number of reviews exploring developments and advancements in the “IoT for Smart Agriculture”. This includes the optimization of any of the wireless sensing devices’ design aspects (design for hostile external agricultural environments, innovation in hardware, software and firmware, robustness and reliability, EDGE computing integration, integration of AI for in-situ analytics, energy autonomy, etc.), the networking of “Things” and services with an emphasis on the application for the agricultural domain (i.e. communication protocols, cellular communications, context-aware middleware, cloud computing, etc.), and new smart agriculture applications according to Agriculture 4.0 (i.e., the combination of real-time data from the field and AI-based analytics to improve decision support operations, use of the concept of Digital Twins for modeling and control, use of a cyberphysical system approach to manage and exert control over diversity and complexity of physical systems in the agricultural domain, etc.).

Dr. Dimitrios Piromalis
Prof. Dr. Konstantinos G. Arvanitis
Prof. Dr. Panagiotis Papageorgas
Guest Editors

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