Smart farming: Opportunities, challenges and technology enablers

Bacco, Manlio; Berton, Andrea; Ferro, Erina; Gennaro, Claudio; Gotta, Alberto; Matteoli, Stefania; Paonessa, Fabio; Ruggeri, Massimiliano; Virone, G.; Zanella, Alberto

doi:10.1109/iot-tuscany.2018.8373043

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“…There exists an increasing research volume [37][38][39][40][41][42] investigating WSNs' potential in smart farming and precision agriculture [11]. Until recently, these domains faced many challenges, mainly due to the lack of wide-area connectivity, energy resources and sometimes harsh environmental conditions that made difficult or even impossible the deployment of WSNs.…”

Section: Wsns In the Agricultural Domainmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Wireless Sensor Network Synchronization for Precision Agriculture Applications

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The advent of Internet of Things has propelled the agricultural domain through the integration of sensory devices, capable of monitoring and wirelessly propagating information to producers; thus, they employ Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). These WSNs allow real time monitoring, enabling intelligent decision-making to maximize yields and minimize cost. Designing and deploying a WSN is a challenging and multivariate task, dependent on the considered environment. For example, a need for network synchronization arises in such networks to correlate acquired measurements. This work focuses on the design and installation of a WSN that is capable of facilitating the sensing aspects of smart and precision agriculture applications. A system is designed and implemented to address specific design requirements that are brought about by the considered environment. A simple synchronization scheme is described to provide time-correlated measurements using the sink node’s clock as reference. The proposed system was installed on an olive grove to assess its effectiveness in providing a low-cost system, capable of acquiring synchronized measurements. The obtained results indicate the system’s overall effectiveness, revealing a small but expected difference in the acquired measurements’ time correlation, caused mostly by serial transmission delays, while yielding a plethora of relevant environmental conditions.

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Section: Wsns In the Agricultural Domainmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although the opportunities arisen are multiple [11], multiple are also the challenges that need to be tackled, since these emerging technologies are still under development. One such challenge is the need for synchronization, which often comes up in networking environments, and especially so in distributed systems [12,13].…”

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“…The presence of human bystanders/co-operators also requires new conceptual frameworks and practical standardized procedures for a high-level safety validation [68]. Joint design approaches have been proposed to combine safety and security requirements in communication networks, in the typical modern scenario of ubiquitous connectivity [69]. Already existing and upcoming standards will be key enablers for the application of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm in a wider context [70].…”

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Key Research Priorities for Factories of the Future—Part I: Missions

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Terkaj

2019

Factories of the Future

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This chapter investigates research priorities for factories of the future by adopting an approach based on mission-oriented policies to support manufacturing innovation. Missions are challenging from a scientific and technological point of view and, at the same time, are addressing problems and providing results that are understandable by common people. Missions are based on clear targets that can help mitigating grand challenges. Based on the results of the Italian Flagship Project Factories of the Future, this chapter proposes seven missions while identifying the societal impact, the technological and industrial challenges, and the barriers to be overcome. These missions cover topics such as circular economy, rapid and sustainable industrialisation, robotic assistant, factories for personalised medicine, internet of actions, factories close to the people, and turning ideas into products. The accomplishment of missions asks for the support of a proper research environment in terms of infrastructures to test and demonstrate the results to a wide public. Research infrastructures together with funding mechanisms will be better addressed in the next chapter of this book. 20.1 Mission-Oriented Research and Innovation Policies The importance of the manufacturing industry both for developed and developing countries has been assessed in several works [1-4], which highlight the need of continuous innovation to cope with societal grand challenges [5]. The results of inno-T. Tolio Director of the Italian Flagship Project "Factories of the Future", Direttore del Progetto Bandiera "La Fabbrica del Futuro",

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“…The requirements under consideration are: (i) reduced form factor, in order to have a small and lightweight platform ready for deploying; (ii) low power consumption, in order to have a platform that can run on batteries; (iii) the use of a COTS board for contained operating costs. For instance, consider an UAV streaming towards a fixed ground station by means of a Wi-Fi connection in a precision agriculture scenario [17], [18] or similar. Because of the limited payload that a small UAV can carry and the limited available power, a lightweight and energy-efficient platform is the preferred choice.…”

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Performance Analysis of WebRTC-Based Video Streaming Over Power Constrained Platforms

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Cola³

et al. 2018

2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)

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This work analyses the use of the WebRTC framework on resource-constrained platforms. WebRTC is a consolidated solution for real-time video streaming, and it is an appealing solution in a wide range of application scenarios. We focus our attention on those in which power consumption, size and weight are of paramount importance because of size, weight and power requirements, such as the use case of unmanned aerial vehicles delivering real-time video streams over WebRTC to peers on the ground. The testbed described in this work shows that the power consumption can be reduced by changing WebRTC default settings while maintaining comparable video quality.

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Smart farming: Opportunities, challenges and technology enablers

Cited by 100 publications

References 10 publications

Wireless Sensor Network Synchronization for Precision Agriculture Applications

Wireless Sensor Network Synchronization for Precision Agriculture Applications

Key Research Priorities for Factories of the Future—Part I: Missions

Performance Analysis of WebRTC-Based Video Streaming Over Power Constrained Platforms

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