AI, Edge, and IoT Smart Agriculture integrates applications of IoT, edge computing, and data analytics for sustainable agricultural development and introduces Edge of Thing-based data analytics and IoT for predictability of crop, soil, and plant disease occurrence for improved sustainability and increased profitability. The book also addresses precision irrigation, precision horticulture, greenhouse IoT, livestock monitoring, IoT ecosystem for agriculture, mobile robot for precision agriculture, energy monitoring, storage management, and smart farming. The book provides an overarching focus on sustainable environment and sustainable economic development through smart and e-agriculture.
Providing a medium for the exchange of expertise and inspiration, contributions from both smart agriculture and data mining researchers around the world provide foundational insights. The book provides practical application opportunities for the resolution of real-world problems, including contributions from the data mining, data analytics, Edge of Things, and cloud research communities working in the farming production sector. The book offers broad coverage of the concepts, themes, and instruments of this important and evolving area of IOT-based agriculture, Edge of Things and cloud-based farming, Greenhouse IOT, mobile agriculture, sustainable agriculture, and big data analytics in agriculture toward smart farming.
- Integrates sustainable agriculture, Greenhouse IOT, precision agriculture, crops monitoring, crops controlling to prediction, livestock monitoring, and farm management
- Presents data mining techniques for precision agriculture, including weather prediction, plant disease prediction, and decision support for crop and soil selection
- Promotes the importance and uses in managing the agro ecosystem for food security
- Emphasizes low energy usage options for low cost and environmental sustainability
Dr. Ajith Abraham is a Pro Vice-Chancellor at Bennette University. He is the director of Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), Australia. MIR Labs are a not-for-profit scientific network for innovation and research excellence connecting industry and academia. His research focuses on real world problems in the fields of machine intelligence, cyber-physical systems, Internet of things, network security, sensor networks, Web intelligence, Web services, and data mining. He is the Chair of the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Soft Computing. He is editor-in-chief of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) and serves on the editorial board of several international journals. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Sujata Dash holds the position of Professor at the Information Technology School of Engineering and Technology, Nagaland University, Dimapur Campus, Nagaland, India, bringing more than three decades of dedicated service in teaching and mentoring students. She has been honoured with the prestigious Titular Fellowship from the Association of Commonwealth Universities, United Kingdom. As a testament to her global contributions, she served as a visiting professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Manitoba, Canada. With a prolific academic record, she has authored over 200 technical papers published in esteemed international journals, and conference proceedings, and edited book chapters by reputed publishers Serving as a reviewer and Associate Editor for approximately 15 international journals.
Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues is a professor at the Federal University of Piauí, Brazil, and senior researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal. He is the leader of the Next Generation Networks and Applications (NetGNA) research group (CNPq), an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, Member Representative of the IEEE Communications Society on the IEEE Biometrics Council, and the President of the scientific council at ParkUrbis – Covilhã Science and Technology Park. He has been general chair and TPC Chair of many international conferences, including IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE HEALTHCOM, and IEEE LatinCom. He has authored or coauthored over 800 papers in refereed international journals and conferences, 3 books, 2 patents, and 1 ITU-T Recommendation. He had been awarded several Outstanding Leadership and Outstanding Service Awards by IEEE Communications Society and several best papers awards. Prof. Rodrigues is a member of the Internet Society, a senior member ACM, and Fellow of IEEE.
Biswa Ranjan Acharya is an academic currently associated with Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology Deemed to be University along with pursuing PhD in computer application from Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT), Burla, Odisha, India. He received MCA in 2009 from IGNOU, New Delhi, India and M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering in the year of 2012 from Biju Pattanaik University of Technology (BPUT), Odisha, India. He is also associated with various educational and research societies like IEEE, IACSIT, CSI, IAENG, and ISC. He has industry experience as a software engineer. He currently is working on research in multiprocessor scheduling along with fields such as Data Analytics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning and IOT.
Dr. Subhendu Kumar Pani received his Ph.D. from Utkal University, Odisha, India in the year 2013. He is working as a professor at Krupajal Engineering College under BPUT, Odisha, India. He has more than 20 years of teaching and research experience His research interests include Data mining, Big Data Analysis, web data analytics, Fuzzy Decision Making and Computational Intelligence. He is the recipient of 5 researcher awards. In addition to research, he has guided two PhD students and 31 M. Tech students. He has published 150 International Journal papers (100 Scopus index). His professional activities include roles as Book Series Editor (CRC Press, Apple Academic Press, Wiley-Scrivener), Associate Editor, Editorial board member and/or reviewer of various International Journals. He is an Associate with no. of the conference societies. He has more than 250 international publications, 5 authored books, 25 edited and upcoming books; 40 book chapters into his account. He is a fellow in SSARSC and a life member in IE, ISTE, ISCA, and OBA.OMS, SMIACSIT, SMUACEE, CSI.
