Agriculture is the primary source of income in developing countries like India. Agriculture accounts for 17 percent of India’s total GDP, with almost 60 percent of the people directly or indirectly employed. While researchers and planters focus on a variety of elements to boost productivity, crop loss due to disease is one of the most serious issues they confront. Crop growth monitoring and early detection of pest infestations are still a problem. With the expansion of cultivation to wider fields, manual intervention to monitor and diagnose insect and pest infestations is becoming increasingly difficult. Failure to apply on time fertilizers and pesticides results in more crop loss and so lower output. Farmers are putting in greater effort to conserve crops, but they are failing most of the time because they are unable to adequately monitor the crops when they are infected by pests and insects. Pest infestation is also difficult to predict because it is not evenly distributed. In the recent past, modern equipment, tools, and approaches have been used to replace manual involvement. Unmanned aerial vehicles serve a critical role in crop disease surveillance and early detection in this setting. This research attempts to give a review of the most successful techniques to have precision-based crop monitoring and pest management in agriculture fields utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or unmanned aircraft. The researchers’ reports on the various types of UAVs and their applications to early detection of agricultural diseases are rigorously assessed and compared. This paper also discusses the deployment of aerial, satellite, and other remote sensing technologies for disease detection, as well as their Quality of Service (QoS).

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Signal processing and data analysis are widely used methods in a biomedical research. In recent years, detection of cardiovascular abnormalities in patients can be achieved by using electrocardiogram (ECG) recording. In this paper, a fuzzy-based multi-objective algorithm using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is proposed. Initially, an effective FFT is used to extract the feature points in ECG signals, such as PQRST wave's amplitude and wave function and then the proposed multi-objective genetic algorithm is used to classify the abnormality of heart patient. Basically, the ECG behaviour depends on various factors such as age, physical condition of patients and the surrounding environment. The efficient detection of abnormalities (e.g. arrhythmia and myocardial abstraction) can be achieved by initializing the above-mentioned factors and maintaining a database containing previously attributed signals, such MIT-BIH arrhythmia. The present study provides efficiency of around 98.7% in detection of abnormalities in patients.

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Due to advancements in healthcare monitoring systems, the Internet of Things concepts are proficiently utilized in the medical field to detect and diagnose the physical health problems. The compression of more substantial medical information is a significant issue that requires ample data storage space and takes longer transmission time. Though several compression algorithms are actualized in past cases, there is an absence of an upgraded approach to achieve improved signal compression without influencing signal quality. Hence a proficient signal compression algorithm is proposed in our work to provide an enhanced electrocardiogram (ECG) signal compression without any data loss and to acquire increased compression ratio (CR) and zero construction error. In this proposed approach, the input ECG signal dataset from the MIT‐BIH arrhythmia database gets influenced by noise because of the electrical measuring gadget. Hence, preprocessing is done by the proposed multi‐scoop notch filter (MSNF) to denoise this signal by removing the specified noise frequency range of around (1‐50) Hz. This proposed MSNF is designed with adaptiveness that has achieved the enhanced denoising by adjusting the notch frequency. In addition, to extricate the sophisticated ECG signal features, Fast Fourier Transform is being utilized, and that performs and decomposes the signal elegantly and obtains characteristics of the signal in the frequency domain. After feature extraction, optimal signal compression is performed by our proposed priority‐based convolutional auto‐encoder (PCAE) that provides better compression with almost zero reconstruction error by encoding the signals into lower‐dimensional vectors in convolutional layers which are again reconstructed using a decoding approach. The experimental results are then assessed using the performance metrics that include signal to noise ratio (SNR), CR, and percentage root‐mean‐square difference (PRD). The attained results are 1.83% as average PRD value, average SNR is about 33 dB, and average CR is about 35.2% whereas the traditional CAE approach has average values of 2.05% PRD, 23.45 dB SNR, and 32.2% CR.

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