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WSN and IoT in Smart Agriculture

A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2018) | Viewed by 10034

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Nathalie Mitton

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Inria Lille-Nord Europe, 59650 Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France
Interests: Internet of Things; wireless sensor networks; RFID; wireless robots networks; services (localization, neighbor discovery, etc)
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Dr. Riaan Wolhuter

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Extraordinary Researcher – DSP Telecommunications Dept of E & E Eng, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Interests: wireless networks and communications systems; WSN/IoT architectures and routing protocols; sensor hardware for WSN and IoT

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The last few decades have witnessed the advancement of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and multiple Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), in both the academic and industrial worlds. Although these new paradigms find applications in many areas, agriculture in particular is attracting increasing interest. Indeed, although agriculture has existed since the dawn of time, it now suffers from ever-increasing demands, environmental concerns and a decreasing number of farmers. It, thus, needs to be revisited and assisted by new technologies. The last few years have witnessed the appearance of several IoT-based products to assist with crop and field management, but there are still some remaining issues, ranging from the data acquisition, interpretation and reliable collection within the expected QoS in some potentially harsh radio environments.

This Special Issue calls for reporting on high quality, up-to-date innovative original current advances in solutions and research in IoT or WSNs, particularly dedicated to agriculture.

The list of possible topics includes, but not limited to:

  • Data-aware routing in smart agriculture
  • Sensor network deployment for smart agriculture
  • Modeling and metrics for sensing in smart agriculture
  • Implementation and prototypes of WSN agriculture showcases
  • Cost effective sensor development for smart agriculture
Dr. Nathalie Mitton
Dr. Riaan Wolhuter
Guest Editors

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Contribution of the Web of Things and of the Opportunistic Computing to the Smart Agriculture: A Practical Experiment
by Lionel Touseau and Nicolas Le Sommer
Future Internet 2019, 11(2), 33; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi11020033 - 1 Feb 2019
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With the emergence of the Internet of Things, environmental sensing has been gaining interest, promising to improve agricultural practices by facilitating decision-making based on gathered environmental data (i.e., weather forecasting, crop monitoring, and soil moisture sensing). Environmental sensing, and by extension what is [...] Read more.
With the emergence of the Internet of Things, environmental sensing has been gaining interest, promising to improve agricultural practices by facilitating decision-making based on gathered environmental data (i.e., weather forecasting, crop monitoring, and soil moisture sensing). Environmental sensing, and by extension what is referred to as precision or smart agriculture, pose new challenges, especially regarding the collection of environmental data in the presence of connectivity disruptions, their gathering, and their exploitation by end-users or by systems that must perform actions according to the values of those collected data. In this paper, we present a middleware platform for the Internet of Things that implements disruption tolerant opportunistic networking and computing techniques, and that makes it possible to expose and manage physical objects through Web-based protocols, standards and technologies, thus providing interoperability between objects and creating a Web of Things (WoT). This WoT-based opportunistic computing approach is backed up by a practical experiment whose outcomes are presented in this article. Full article
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Studying Semi-TCP and Its Application in Marine Internet
by Liang Zhou, Sheng-Ming Jiang and Chen-Lin Xiong
Future Internet 2018, 10(6), 44; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi10060044 - 25 May 2018
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TCP protocol has good performance on the Internet, but its performance is significantly reduced when it is applied to Marine Internet (MI). How to improve the performance of TCP protocol in Marine Internet has become an important research topic. In this paper, an [...] Read more.
TCP protocol has good performance on the Internet, but its performance is significantly reduced when it is applied to Marine Internet (MI). How to improve the performance of TCP protocol in Marine Internet has become an important research topic. In this paper, an improved Semi-TCP is adopted for Marine Internet, and the implementation scheme of Semi-TCP congestion control is introduced. The exposed terminal problem and congestion control problem of high load networks are analyzed in detail. By using a timer, the congestion control algorithm is improved. Performance analysis and comparison of TCP-Lite, Semi-TCP-RTS, and improved Semi-TCP (Semi-TCP-RTS-V2) are carried out on Exata simulation platform, and the experimental results show that Semi-TCP-RTS-V2 has better transmission performance in ship ad hoc networks. Full article
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