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Special Section: Smart Agriculture
Smart Sensing for
Agriculture: Applications,
Advancements, and
Challenges
Ramakant Kumar, Rahul Mishra, Hari
Prabhat Gupta, and Tanima Dutta
Indian Institute of Technology (BHU)
Abstract-Smart sensing for agriculture (SSA) is an emerging paradigm to facilitate
quantitative and qualitative improvement in the productions. It incorporates a large
number of low cost and low energy consuming sensors for inducing automation and
reducing human efforts. SSA not only increases the monetary benefits of farmers but also
ensures the delivery of fresh products. SSA uses a variety of consumer electronics (CE)
devices that can automate multiple processes, monitor the soil health, growth of the
crops, animal husbandry, detect anomalies in crop growth or livestock health, and
enhance agriculture product quality and volumes. These devices incorporate various
short-range and long-range communication protocols for relaying the sensory data. SSA
finds several applications and provides a futuristic perspective for developing efficient
and economical CE devices. This encourages us to present a taxonomy of different
applications and advancements in agriculture through smart sensing. We also discuss
different challenges that we incur while developing CE devices for smart agriculture.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCE.2021.3049623
Date ofpublication 8 January 2021; date ofcurrent version
10 June 2021.
& RECENT YEARS HAVE witnessed unprecedented
growth in sensing applications due to the
easier availability of low-cost, low-power, and
small-size sensors.1,2 Smart sensing for agriculture
(SSA) is one of the potential applications
that improve the financial condition of farmers. It
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