Abstract
Agriculture is the primary source for the development of our country’s economy. It involves production, processing, marketing, and distribution of agricultural produce. Smart agriculture is one of the modern farming practices that increase the agricultural production in a most efficient manner. Smart agriculture involves wireless sensor networks (WSN) for various operations. Wide variety of sensors are used in WSN that assists farmers to know the statistical details of their field which helps them to take accurate decisions and provides instantaneous feedback for various agricultural parameters. Numerous researchers and manufacturers aim to develop real-time sensors based on different approaches, namely electromagnetic, electric, optical, mechanistic, acoustic, or electrochemical, which calculates the physical and chemical properties of soil in agricultural fields. The main objective of this study is to review the application of wireless sensors used in agriculture, the principle and various instrumentation techniques in measuring different parameters in agriculture.
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The authors sincerely thank the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) of DST for the financial support and the Director, ICAR-SBI, Coimbatore, and the Management and Principal of Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, Coimbatore, for extending the required facilities.
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Madhumathi, R., Arumuganathan, T., Shruthi, R. (2022). A Survey on Wireless Sensor Networks and Instrumentation Techniques for Smart Agriculture. In: Shakya, S., Bestak, R., Palanisamy, R., Kamel, K.A. (eds) Mobile Computing and Sustainable Informatics. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 68. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1866-6_33
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