Cloud IoT Systems for Smart Agricultural Engineering

Agriculture plays a vital role in a country’s growth. Modern-day technologies drive every domain toward smart systems. The use of traditional agricultural procedures to satisfy modern-day requirements is a challenging task. Cloud IoT Systems for Smart Agricultural Engineering provides substantial coverage of various challenges of the agriculture domain through modern technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, and many more.

This book offers various state-of-the-art procedures to be deployed in a wide range of agricultural activities. The concepts are discussed with the necessary implementations and clear examples. Necessary illustrations are depicted in the chapters to ensure the effective delivery of the proposed concepts. It presents the rapid advancement of the technologies in the existing agricultural model by applying the cloud IoT techniques. A wide variety of novel architectural solutions are discussed in various chapters of this book.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the most essential topics, including:

• New approaches on urban and vertical farming
• Smart crop management for Indian farmers
• Smart livestock management
• Precision agriculture using geographical information systems
• Machine learning techniques combined with IoT for smart agriculture
• Effective use of drones in smart agriculture

This book provides solutions for the diverse domain of problems in agricultural engineering. It can be used at the basic and intermediary levels for agricultural science and engineering graduate students, researchers, and practitioners.

Dr. K. Saravanan, is working as a senior assistant professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Anna University, Regional Campus, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu. He has done M.E Software Engineering and Ph.D in Computer Science engineering. His research interests include Cloud Computing, Software Engineering, Internet of Things, Smart cities. He has published papers in 14 international conferences and 27 international journals. He has also written 14 book chapters and edited seven books with international publishers. He has done consultancy work for Municipal Corporation and Smart City schemes. He is an active researcher and academician. Also, he is reviewer for many reputed journals in elsevier, IEEE etc. He is a member of ISTE, IEI, ISCA, ACM, etc.

He has also trained and interviewed the engineering college students for placement training & counselling. He has conducted many ISTE workshops in association with IIT Bombay and IIT Kharagpur. Also, he conducted NPTEL workshop for the faculty and students. He is also coordinator for IIRS (Indian Institute of Remote Sensing) eoutreach programme. He has delivered more than 50 guest lecturers in many seminars/conferences in reputed engineering colleges.

Dr. J. Bruce Ralphin Rose is a faculty of Aeronautical Engineering department at Anna University Regional Campus, Tirunelveli. He received his B.E and M.E degrees in discipline of Aeronautical Engineering with Distinction from Anna University, Chennai, India. He was also awarded a Ph.D. Degree in the field of Aerodynamics by Anna University in the year of 2014. He has published more than 50 leading Journal articles in the Aerospace Engineering archival journals (Q1 & Q2) published by Elsevier, Springer, SAGE-UK, World Scientific-Singapore, Inderscience and Emerald UK. He is the editor of the journal "Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology" under Science publications. He has also published several book chapters in the bioinspired aerodynamic perspective for various applications. He has completed two major funded projects sponsored by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Tamilnadu State Council for Science and Technology (TNSCST), India. He is a technical consultant for Buteos Aerobotics Corporation, NewDelhi who is the OEM Company for drones and Suzlon wind Energy Ltd.

Dr. Bruce has chaired many International and national conferences organized by the premier institutions across the globe for the past 11 years. He is an Anna University recognized research supervisor and guided 6 Ph.D scholars and 101 PG scholars till date in the Aerodynamics and Aeroelasticity domains. He was awarded as ‘Outstanding Reviewer’ by Elsevier Publications during 2015 and delivered more than 100 expert talks across the country to raise the nation’s aerospace potential to the next level. Dr. Bruce’s bioinspired aerodynamics centric research has been continuously supported by the Govt. of Tamilnadu and Dept. of Biotechnology (DBT), India with all the required resources.

Dr. N. R. RAJALAKSHMI is working as a Professor in the department of Computer Science & Engineering at Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr.Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology,Chennai, Tamilnadu. She has been involved in research area of cloud, IoT, Machine Learning, Big data, and Blockchain. She has published more than 20 Leading Journal articles and several book chapters in the field of cloud, IoT, Machine Learning. She is an active researcher and academician. Also, she is a reviewer for many reputed journals in Computer, Inderscience, Springer etc.

Dr. N Narayanan Prasanth is an Associate Professor at School of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamilnadu, India. He received his B.Tech (IT) from Pondicherry University, M.E (CSE) from Anna University, India and Ph.D. CSE from M.S University Tirunelveli. His research interest includes Network Switching and Routing, Distributed computing and Internet of Things. He has published papers in various reputed conferences and journals. He is a life member of ISTE and a member of CSTA.