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faced by Indian farmers and provided research objectives
with research questions. Lastly, a unique blockchain model
was also developed in the article, and it has the potential to
be employed as a significant solution to critical difficulties
in IoT-based smart agricultural systems.
About the Authors
Urvashi Sugandh (urvashi5sugandh@hotmail.com)
earned her master's degree in technology from the Department
of Information Technology of Banasthali Vidyapith,
Rajasthan in 2014. She is an assistant professor in the
Department of Computer Science Engineering, HMR Institute
of Technology and Management, affiliated with Guru
Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, by the Government
of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. Currently,
she is pursuing a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer
Science, Banasthali Vidyapith, Jaipur, Rajasthan
304022 India. Her research interests include blockchain,
data mining, and software engineering. She has published
two patents and four research papers in international/
national conferences.
Swati Nigam (swatinigam.au@gmail.com) earned her
Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Department of
Electronics and Communication, University of Allahabad,
India, in 2015. She is currently an assistant professor in the
Department of Computer Science, Banasthali Vidyapith, Jaipur,
Rajasthan 304022 India. She has been a postdoctoral
fellow under the National Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme
of Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of
Science and Technology, Government of India. Earlier, she
was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship by the Council
of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India.
Her research interests include object detection, object
tracking, and human behavior analysis. She has authored
more than 20 articles in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters,
and conference proceedings. She has also published an
authored book for Springer publications. She is a designated
reviewer of several Science Citation Index journals, like
IEEE Access, Computer Vision and Image Understanding,
Journal of Electronic Imaging, and Multimedia Tools and
Applications. She has been publication chair, publicity
chair, technical program committee member, and reviewer
of various respected conferences. She is a Member of IEEE
and a member of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Manju Khari (manjukhari@yahoo.co.in) earned her
Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from the
National Institute of Technology Patna and her master's
degree in information security from the Ambedkar Institute
of Advanced Communication Technologies and Research,
affiliated with Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University,
Delhi, India. She is an associate professor in the School of
Computer and Systems Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi, Delhi 110067 India. Prior to this, she worked
with Netaji Subhas University of Technology, East Campus,
formerly Ambedkar Institute of Advanced Communication
Technologies and Research, under the Government of the
National Capital Territory of Delhi. She has 80 published
papers in refereed national/international journals and conferences
(for IEEE, the Association for Computing Machinery,
Springer, Inderscience, and Elsevier) and 10 book chapters
for Springer, CRC Press, IGI Global, and Auerbach. She is
also coauthor of two books published by NCERT for classes
XI and XII and coeditor of 10 edited books. She has also
organized five international conference sessions, three faculty
development programs, one workshop, and one industrial
meeting. She delivered an expert talk, was a guest lecturer in
an international conference, and a member of reviewer/technical
program committees in various international
conferences. Besides this, she is associated with many international
research organizations as an associate editor/guest
editor of Springer, Wiley, and Elsevier books and a reviewer
for various international journals.
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