The Role of AIoT-Based Automation Systems Using UAVs in Smart Agriculture

Abstract

Agriculture is not all about food and includes production, promotion, filtering, and sales of agricultural products and provides better employment opportunities to many people. Nowadays, precision agriculture is gaining more popularity, and its main goal is the availability to all common people at low cost with maximum crop productivity. It also helps in protecting the environment. IoT, internet of things, a technology that is developing in modern society, can be applied to agriculture. At present, IoT-enabled technology in agriculture has developed to a greater extent, particularly a drastic development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and wireless sensor networks (WSN), and could lead to valuable but cost-effective applications for precision agriculture (PA), including crop monitoring with drones and intelligent spraying tests. In this chapter, the authors explore the various applications of artificial intelligence of things (AIoT) and provide detailed explanation on how AIoT may be implemented in agriculture effectively. Moreover, they highlight crucial future research and directions for AIoT.