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Automation Techniques for Smart and Sustainable Agriculture and its Challenges
- 1 School of Computer Science, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun 248007, INDIA
- 2 Computer Science Engineering, Bennett University, Greater Noida 201301, INDIA
- 3 Computer Science Engineering, Bennett University, Greater Noida 201301, INDIA
- 4 Middlesex University, United Kingdom
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Abstract
In the contemporary scenario, the world is primarily focused on trends and technology that leads to intelligent and accurate results in every field. Automation of everything has come up as a necessary demand due to this reason. Things are automated wherever possible. Agriculture is also one such field where automation has acquired much popularity. With the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, integration of various tools and technologies like IoT, Deep Learning, cloud, etc., has led to the development of several automated agriculture systems, generally termed as "Smart and Sustainable Agriculture". Motivated by this fact, a comparative study of state-of-the-art approaches for Smart and Sustainable Agriculture systems using automated devices is presented in this paper. To build the basics, the paper discusses the Smart and Sustainable agriculture systems techniques for the automation of the agriculture systems. The next section presents the relative performance of different approaches. At last, the upcoming challenges and future work directions in this field are discussed next.
Keywords
Agroforestry, Smart Cropping., Smart Irrigation, Automation, Sustainable Agriculture
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Misra,T.;Anwarul,S.;Srivastava,D.;Cheng,X. (2023). Automation Techniques for Smart and Sustainable Agriculture and its Challenges. Applied and Computational Engineering,2,519-528.
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