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Inventions and Innovation in Smart Sensing Technologies for Agriculture

A special issue of Inventions (ISSN 2411-5134). This special issue belongs to the section "Inventions and Innovation in Design, Modeling and Computing Methods".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 8815

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Xinqing Xiao

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College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: smart sensing; smart agriculture; Internet of Things; energy harvesting sensing; self-powered sensing; battery-free sensing; food monitoring
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Dear Colleagues,

Agriculture plays a crucial role in ensuring global food security and sustainable development. Smart sensing technologies have emerged as powerful tools to enhance productivity, optimize resource utilization, and improve overall agricultural practices. By gathering cutting-edge research and technological advancements in smart sensing technologies, the Special Issue on “Inventions and Innovation of Smart Sensing Technologies in Agriculture” aims to contribute to the advancement of precision agriculture, sustainability, and productivity in the agricultural sector.

The Special Issue aims to cover a wide range of topics including, but not limited to, the following:

  • Design and development of novel smart sensors for monitoring soil conditions, crop health, irrigation, fertilization and agri-food quality management.
  • Wireless sensor networks and Internet of Things (IoT) applications in precision agriculture for real-time data collection, analysis, and decision-making.
  • Remote sensing techniques and satellite imagery for crop monitoring, yield estimation, and land management.
  • Integration of advanced technologies such as robotics, drones, and artificial intelligence in smart sensing systems for automated farming operations.
  • Smart sensing technologies for monitoring and controlling environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, light, and air quality in greenhouses and controlled environments.
  • Use of smart sensing technologies for pest and disease detection, early warning systems, and plant protection strategies.
  • Innovative approaches for data analytics, modeling, and predictive algorithms to optimize agricultural practices and improve resource efficiency.
  • Field trials, case studies, and practical applications of smart sensing technologies in different agricultural sectors including crop production, livestock management, aquaculture, agroforestry, and the agri-food supply chain.

Authors are encouraged to submit their high-quality research and innovation contributions to this Special Issue, with a focus on the development and application of smart sensing technologies in agriculture.

Dr. Xinqing Xiao
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • smart sensing technologies
  • precision agriculture
  • wireless sensor networks
  • inventions and innovation

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Enhancing Tractor Stability and Safety through Individual Actuators in Active Suspension
by Jinho Son, Yeongsu Kim, Seokho Kang and Yushin Ha
Inventions 2024, 9(2), 29; https://doi.org/10.3390/inventions9020029 - 6 Mar 2024
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Tractor overturning accidents are a prominent safety concern in the field of agriculture. Many studies have been conducted to prevent tractor overturning accidents. Rollover protective structures and seat belts currently installed on tractors cannot prevent them from overturning. The posture of a tractor [...] Read more.
Tractor overturning accidents are a prominent safety concern in the field of agriculture. Many studies have been conducted to prevent tractor overturning accidents. Rollover protective structures and seat belts currently installed on tractors cannot prevent them from overturning. The posture of a tractor was controlled by installing individual actuators. The overturning angles of the tractor equipped with an actuator were compared with those of a tractor with no actuator. For the overturning angles in all directions of the tractor, it rotated 15° from 0° to 345°, and the actuator height suitable for the tractor posture was controlled by establishing an equation according to the tractor posture. Consequently, posture control using actuators was noticeably improved. This study proposes that tractors operating on irregular and sloping terrain be equipped with individual actuators. These results prevent tractor rollover accidents and improve safety and driving stability. Full article
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Enhancing Smart Agriculture Monitoring via Connectivity Management Scheme and Dynamic Clustering Strategy
by Fariborz Ahmadi, Omid Abedi and Sima Emadi
Inventions 2024, 9(1), 10; https://doi.org/10.3390/inventions9010010 - 5 Jan 2024
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The evolution of agriculture towards a modern, intelligent system is crucial for achieving sustainable development and ensuring food security. In this context, leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT) stands as a pivotal strategy to enhance both crop quantity and quality while effectively managing [...] Read more.
The evolution of agriculture towards a modern, intelligent system is crucial for achieving sustainable development and ensuring food security. In this context, leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT) stands as a pivotal strategy to enhance both crop quantity and quality while effectively managing natural resources such as water and fertilizer. Wireless sensor networks, the backbone of IoT-based smart agricultural infrastructure, gather ecosystem data and transmit them to sinks and drones. However, challenges persist, notably in network connectivity, energy consumption, and network lifetime, particularly when facing supernode and relay node failures. This paper introduces an innovative approach to address these challenges within heterogeneous wireless sensor network-based smart agriculture. The proposed solution comprises a novel connectivity management scheme and a dynamic clustering method facilitated by five distributed algorithms. The first and second algorithms focus on path collection, establishing connections between each node and m-supernodes via k-disjoint paths to ensure network robustness. The third and fourth algorithms provide sustained network connectivity during node and supernode failures by adjusting transmission powers and dynamically clustering agriculture sensors based on residual energy. In the fifth algorithm, an optimization algorithm is implemented on the dominating set problem to strategically position a subset of relay nodes as migration points for mobile supernodes to balance the network’s energy depletion. The suggested solution demonstrates superior performance in addressing connectivity, failure tolerance, load balancing, and network lifetime, ensuring optimal agricultural outcomes. Full article
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Early-Stage Identification of Powdery Mildew Levels for Cucurbit Plants in Open-Field Conditions Based on Texture Descriptors
by Claudia Angélica Rivera-Romero, Elvia Ruth Palacios-Hernández, Osbaldo Vite-Chávez and Iván Alfonso Reyes-Portillo
Inventions 2024, 9(1), 8; https://doi.org/10.3390/inventions9010008 - 3 Jan 2024
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Constant monitoring is necessary for powdery mildew prevention in field crops because, as a fungal disease, it modifies the green pigments of the leaves and is responsible for production losses. Therefore, there is a need for solutions that assure early disease detection to [...] Read more.
Constant monitoring is necessary for powdery mildew prevention in field crops because, as a fungal disease, it modifies the green pigments of the leaves and is responsible for production losses. Therefore, there is a need for solutions that assure early disease detection to realize proactive control and management of the disease. The methodology currently used for the identification of powdery mildew disease uses RGB leaf images to detect damage levels. In the early stage of the disease, no symptoms are visible, but this is a point at which the disease can be controlled before the symptoms appear. This study proposes the implementation of a support vector machine to identify powdery mildew on cucurbit plants using RGB images and color transformations. First, we use an image dataset that provides photos covering five growing seasons in different locations and under natural light conditions. Twenty-two texture descriptors using the gray-level co-occurrence matrix result are calculated as the main features. The proposed damage levels are ’healthy leaves’, ’leaves in the fungal germination phase’, ’leaves with first symptoms’, and ’diseased leaves’. The implementation reveals that the accuracy in the L * a * b color space is higher than that when using the combined components, with an accuracy value of 94% and kappa Cohen of 0.7638. Full article
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Sensing Spontaneous Combustion in Agricultural Storage Using IoT and ML
by Umar Farooq Shafi, Imran Sarwar Bajwa, Waheed Anwar, Hina Sattar, Shabana Ramzan and Aqsa Mahmood
Inventions 2023, 8(5), 122; https://doi.org/10.3390/inventions8050122 - 26 Sep 2023
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The combustion of agricultural storage represents a big hazard to the safety and quality preservation of crops during lengthy storage times. Cotton storage is considered more prone to combustion for many reasons, i.e., heat by microbial growth, exothermic and endothermic reactions in storage [...] Read more.
The combustion of agricultural storage represents a big hazard to the safety and quality preservation of crops during lengthy storage times. Cotton storage is considered more prone to combustion for many reasons, i.e., heat by microbial growth, exothermic and endothermic reactions in storage areas, and extreme weather conditions in storage areas. Combustion not only increases the chances of a big fire outbreak in the long run, but it may also affect cotton’s quality factors like its color, staple length, seed quality, etc. The cotton’s quality attributes may divert from their normal range in the presence of combustion. It is difficult to detect, monitor, and control combustion. The Internet of Things (IoT) offers efficient and reliable solutions for numerous research problems in agriculture, healthcare, business analytics, and industrial manufacturing. In the agricultural domain, the IoT provides various applications for crop monitoring, warehouse protection, the prevention of crop diseases, and crop yield maximization. We also used the IoT for the smart and real-time sensing of spontaneous combustion inside storage areas in order to maintain cotton quality during lengthy storage. In the current research, we investigate spontaneous combustion inside storage and identify the primary reasons for it. Then, we proposed an efficient IoT and machine learning (ML)-based solution for the early sensing of combustion in storage in order to maintain cotton quality during long storage times. The proposed system provides real-time sensing of combustion-causing factors with the help of the IoT-based circuit and prediction of combustion using an efficient artificial neural network (ANN) model. The proposed smart sensing of combustion is verified by a different set of experiments. The proposed ANN model showed a 99.8% accuracy rate with 95–98% correctness and 97–99% completeness. The proposed solution is very efficient in detecting combustion and enables storage owners to become aware of combustion hazards in a timely manner; hence, they can improve the storage conditions for the preservation of cotton quality in the long run. The whole article consists of five sections. Full article
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