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IoT-based Precision Agriculture: A Review

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Agriculture is one of the important economic sectors in India, constitutes 20% of the gross domestic product (GDP) of the country. The use of the Internet of Things (IoT) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in agriculture helps farmers improve their productivity through better prediction, real-time monitoring, and efficient management of crops. This review aims to highlight the role of UAVs in crop health monitoring, various critical parameters, wireless sensor technologies (WSNs), and platforms used in IoT-based precision agriculture (PA), which significantly improves productivity when compared to manual farming.

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We extend our sincere thanks and gratitude to the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Patna, for providing the administrative and technical support to the IoT lab for conducting this research work. We would like to thank Mr. Kunal Abhishek (Joint Director, C-DAC, Patna) for his inputs.

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    V. A. Diya, Pradeep Nandan & Ritesh R. Dhote

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Diya, V.A., Nandan, P., Dhote, R.R. (2023). IoT-based Precision Agriculture: A Review. In: Noor, A., Saroha, K., Pricop, E., Sen, A., Trivedi, G. (eds) Proceedings of Emerging Trends and Technologies on Intelligent Systems. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1414. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4182-5_30

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