Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Smart Agriculture: Applications, Requirements, and Challenges

In the next few years, smart farming will reach each and every nook of the world. The prospects of using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for smart farming are immense. However, the cost and the ease in controlling UAVs for smart farming might play an important role for motivating farmers to use UAVs...

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Published in:IEEE sensors journal Vol. 21; no. 16; pp. 17608 - 17619
Main Authors: Reddy Maddikunta, Praveen Kumar, Hakak, Saqib, Alazab, Mamoun, Bhattacharya, Sweta, Gadekallu, Thippa Reddy, Khan, Wazir Zada, Pham, Quoc-Viet
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York IEEE 15.08.2021
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
Agriculture
agriculture sensors
and crops monitoring
Bluetooth
bluetooth low energy
Digital agriculture
Farmers
Farming
Intelligent sensors
precision agriculture
Radio waves
Remote control
Sensors
smart agriculture
smart farming
smart fields
Smart sensors
Smartphones
Technology transfer
Temperature sensors
Unmanned aerial vehicles
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
Wireless sensor networks
ISSN:1530-437X, 1558-1748
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Summary:In the next few years, smart farming will reach each and every nook of the world. The prospects of using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for smart farming are immense. However, the cost and the ease in controlling UAVs for smart farming might play an important role for motivating farmers to use UAVs in farming. Mostly, UAVs are controlled by remote controllers using radio waves. There are several technologies such as Wi-Fi or ZigBee that are also used for controlling UAVs. However, Smart Bluetooth (also referred to as Bluetooth Low Energy) is a wireless technology used to transfer data over short distances. Smart Bluetooth is cheaper than other technologies and has the advantage of being available on every smart phone. Farmers can use any smart phone to operate their respective UAVs along with Bluetooth Smart enabled agricultural sensors in the future. However, certain requirements and challenges need to be addressed before UAVs can be operated for smart agriculture-related applications. Hence, in this article, an attempt has been made to explore the types of sensors suitable for smart farming, potential requirements and challenges for operating UAVs in smart agriculture. We have also identified the future applications of using UAVs in smart farming.
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ISSN:1530-437X
1558-1748
DOI:10.1109/JSEN.2021.3049471