Automation techniques for smart and sustainable agriculture and its challenges
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Misra, T., Anwarul, S., Srivastava, D. and Cheng, X. 2023. Automation techniques for smart and sustainable agriculture and its challenges. Applied and Computational Engineering. 2, pp. 519-528. https://doi.org/10.54254/2755-2721/2/20220673
| Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Title | Automation techniques for smart and sustainable agriculture and its challenges |
| Authors | Misra, T., Anwarul, S., Srivastava, D. and Cheng, X. |
| Abstract | In the contemporary scenario, the world is primarily focused on trends and technology that leads to intelligent and accurate results in every field. Automation of everything has come up as a necessary demand due to this reason. Things are automated wherever possible. Agriculture is also one such field where automation has acquired much popularity. With the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, integration of various tools and technologies like IoT, Deep Learning, cloud, etc., has led to the development of several automated agriculture systems, generally termed as "Smart and Sustainable Agriculture". Motivated by this fact, a comparative study of state-of-the-art approaches for Smart and Sustainable Agriculture systems using automated devices is presented in this paper. To build the basics, the paper discusses the Smart and Sustainable agriculture systems techniques for the automation of the agriculture systems. The next section presents the relative performance of different approaches. At last, the upcoming challenges and future work directions in this field are discussed next. |
| Keywords | Sustainable Agriculture; Automation; Agroforestry; Smart Irrigation; Smart Cropping |
| Sustainable Development Goals | 12 Responsible consumption and production |
| 9 Industry, innovation and infrastructure | |
| Middlesex University Theme | Sustainability |
| Publisher | EWA Publishing |
| Journal | Applied and Computational Engineering |
| ISSN | 2755-273X |
| Electronic | 2755-2721 |
| Publication dates | |
| 22 Mar 2023 | |
| Publication process dates | |
| Accepted | 2023 |
| Deposited | 01 Aug 2025 |
| Output status | Published |
| Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
| Copyright Statement | © 2025 The Authors. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Additional information | Volume title: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computing and Data Science (CONF-CDS 2022) |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.54254/2755-2721/2/20220673 |
| Event | 4th International Conference on Computing and Data Science |
| Editors | Wang, A. |
| ISBN | |
| Paperback | 9781915371195 |
| Electronic | 9781915371201 |
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