Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: One of the most intriguing 6G vertical markets is precision agriculture, where communications, sensing, control, and robotics technologies are used to improve agricultural outputs and decrease environmental impact. Ambient IoT (A-IoT), which uses a network of devices that harvest ambient energy to enable communications, is expected to play an important role in agricultural use cases due to its low costs, simplicity, and battery-free (or battery-assisted) operation. In this article, we review the use cases of precision agriculture and discuss the challenges. We discuss how A-IoT can be used for precision agriculture and compare it with other ambient energy source technologies. We also discuss research directions related to both A-IoT and precision agriculture.
Source: IEEE Communications Magazine
Institution: Purdue University West Lafayette
Language: English
Topic: Smart Agriculture and AI
Subfield: Plant Science
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: National Science Foundation
Awards: CCRI: Planning-M: Midwest Pivot Array for Autonomous Agricultural Sensing at Scale, CIF: Small: Timing Optimization Over Random Network Asynchrony - Theory And Distributed Algorithms, CIF: Small: Fundamental Communication Latency Limits Beyond the Traditional Block-Coding Architecture, Collaborative Research: NSF-AoF: CNS Core: Small: Towards Scalable and Al-based Solutions for Beyond-5G Radio Access Networks, NSF Engineering Research Center for the Internet of Things for Precision Agriculture (IoT4Ag), GOALI: CNS: Medium: Communication-Computation Co-Design for Rural Connectivtiy and Intelligence under Nonuniformity: Modeling, Analysis, and Implementation, Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Medium: Information Freshness in Scalable and Energy Constrained Machine to Machine Wireless Networks
OpenAlex ID: W4409014667