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Challenges and Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks in Smart Farming—A Survey

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Human survival is a huge task of their lives in the society. Agriculture is the most important role played by the survival of human civilization. The technological advancement in wireless communication and reduction in size of sensor is innovatively projects in the various fields such as environmental monitoring, precision farming, health care, military, smart home, etc. This paper provides an insight into various needs of wireless sensor technologies, wireless sensor motes used in agriculture and challenges involved in deployment of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). Smart Farming (SF) has been played a major role to enhance more production in the field of agriculture. This article not only focuses on smart farming but also compared with traditional methods in agriculture.

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  1. Department of Computer Science Engineering, KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India

    T. Rajasekaran

  2. Department of Information Technology, Kongu Engineering College, Erode, India

    S. Anandamurugan

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  1. Department of Computer Sciences Technology, Karunya Institute of Technology & Sciences, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

    J. Dinesh Peter

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA

    Amir H. Alavi

  3. School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Bahman Javadi

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Rajasekaran, T., Anandamurugan, S. (2019). Challenges and Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks in Smart Farming—A Survey. In: Peter, J., Alavi, A., Javadi, B. (eds) Advances in Big Data and Cloud Computing. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 750. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1882-5_30

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