Monitoring, Detection and Control Techniques of Agriculture Pests and Diseases using Wireless Sensor Network: A Review

Abstract

Wireless sensor network technology is widely used in the western world for improving agriculture output. However, in the developing countries, the adaptation of technology is very slow due to various factors such as cost and unawareness of farmers with the technology. There are reports in the literature related to the precision agriculture and hopefully, this paper will add to the knowledge of the use of Wireless sensor network (WSN) for monitoring agriculture fields for pest detection. The literature related to pest monitoring and detection using wireless sensor networking technologies are reviewed. Then, the advanced sensing technologies are currently in use for the detection of a pest has been described. The existing techniques about pest detection and disease monitoring are evaluated on the basis of some key parameters such as the type of sensors used, their cost, processing tools, etc. Finally, the sensing technologies and the possibility of using third generation sensing technology for monitoring and detection of cotton crops are analyzed.

Web‐based automatic traps for early detection of alien wood‐boring beetles

“…In recent decades, remote cameras have been used mainly in plant studies (Ahrends et al., ; Graham et al., ; Migliavacca et al., ) and wildlife monitoring (Burton et al., ). Nevertheless, a few recent studies have focused on the possible use of cameras for detecting and monitoring insect occurrence and activity (Jian et al., ; Guarnieri et al., ; Lopez et al., ; Selby et al., ; Azfar et al., ). Tools that can check insect traps remotely and automatically—an activity that is usually very expensive and time‐consuming if performed manually—could be useful, for instance, for the early detection of invasive alien species at high‐risk sites.…”

Detecting Soil Microarthropods with a Camera-Supported Trap

“…The continuous automatic monitoring of insects, and especially monitoring their activity, was previously investigated in many research papers [24]. Concerning soil-or surface-living insect species, two types of methods have been applied: opto-electronic sensors and digital cameras.…”

Wireless Sensor Network Synchronization for Precision Agriculture Applications

“…As such, many systems have been developed that focus not only on classical agricultural applications [45], such as crop monitoring [40], disease countermeasures [46] and pest detection [47], but also on various other aspects of farming, as stated in [4], where the needs of future agriculture are determined. These include (but are not limited to) management of underground planting [48], modern drone spraying and control techniques [49,50], robotic enhancements [28,51], security and privacy matters regarding the sensed data [52,53] and of course food safety and quality issues [9,10,37].…”