Internet of Things for Agriculture 4.0: Impact and Challenges

This new book provides an insightful look at the varied and exciting uses and applications of Wi-Fi and the Internet of Things in agriculture. With internet-enabled communications becoming more widely available, farms and agricultural establishments can take advantage of these new technologies for a wide range of farm operations, such as crop management, farm vehicle tracking, livestock monitoring, storage monitoring, and more.

The collected data from these devices can be stored in the cloud system or server and accessed by the farmers via the internet or mobile phones. This book shows the many benefits to farmers from applying IoT, including better utilizing information for monitoring crops, optimizing water use, planning effective fertilization strategies, and saving time and reducing the operation expenses.

Topics include using IoT for vertical farming, IoT-based smart irrigation system, landslide susceptibility assessment, automated aeroponics systems, crop survival analysis, and more. The volume also considers the challenges of IoT in agriculture, such as the requirements of applications of wireless sensor networks, the threat of attacks and the detection of vulnerabilities in wireless sensor networks, and more.

provides a better understanding of the time- and resourcing-saving benefits of wireless sensors and remote monitoring devices in agriculture. The volume will be useful for those involved in agricultural operations as well as scientists and researchers, and faculty and students in agriculture and computer and information science engineering.

Rajesh Singh, PhD, is currently associated with Lovely Professional University as a Professor with more than 16 years of experience in academics. He has been honored as a keynote speaker and session chair at international and national conferences, faculty development programs, and workshops. He holds over 150 patents and has published more than 100 research papers in refereed journals and conferences and over 24 books in the area of embedded systems and the Internet of Things with reputed publishers. He is an editor to special journal issues published by the Springer Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing book series and with IGI Global. Under his mentorship, students have participated in national and international competitions, including the Innovative Design Challenge Competition by Texas and DST and the Laureate Award of Excellence in Robotics Engineering, Madrid, Spain. His team has been the winner of the Smart India Hackathon–2019 hardware version conducted by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, for the problem statement of Mahindra & Mahindra. Under his mentorship, his student teams have received several awards in competitions, and he himself has also been recognized with several awards and honors. His area of expertise includes embedded systems, robotics, wireless sensor networks, and Internet of Things.

, is currently associated with Lovely Professional University as Associate Professor with more than 17 years of experience in academics and research. His area of expertise includes renewable energy technologies, thermal energy, robotics, and Internet of Things. He has organized and conducted a number of workshops, summer internships, and expert lectures for students as well as faculty. He has published over 24 research papers in refereed journals and conferences. He is a life member of the Indian Society for Technical Education, faculty member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, and a life member of the Aeronautical Society of India. He is an editorial board member and reviewer of various reputed journals. He was the Research Sub-Coordinator for ADRDE, DRDO in the project of design and development of the deceleration system for Space Capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE). He has five patents to his name. He is the editor of two books, one from CRC Press by Taylor & Francis and one from Nova Science Publishers.

, is currently associated with Lovely Professional University as Associate Professor with more than 12 years of experience in academics. Her area of expertise includes embedded systems, wireless sensor networks, and Internet of Things. She has been honored as a keynote speaker and session chair at several international and national conferences, faculty development programs, and workshops. She has over 132 patents in her account and has published more than 70 research papers in refereed journals and conferences and over 24 books in the area of embedded systems and Internet of Things with reputed publishers. She is an editor for a special issue published by Springer Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing book series and IGI Global. She was awarded with a certificate of appreciation from the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies for her exemplary work. Under her mentorship, the student team earned an InSc award 2019, under student projects program. She has been awarded with a Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Award, as a mentor to On Board Diagnostic Data Analysis System-OBDAS, and appreciated under Cutting Edge Innovation during the Festival of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Rashtrapati Bahawan, India in 2018.

, is Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering & Technology, Hyderabad, India. He has more than 16 years of experience in teaching and research. He has multidisciplinary research interests in the areas of renewable energy, alternative fuels, and composites. He has guided 15 MTech projects and is currently guiding several PhD students. He has over 40 publications to his credit in highly reputed international journals along with 20 publications in proceedings of national and international conferences. He is on review boards of many prestigious national and international journals and is an editorial board member for various international journals.