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Technological and Socio-Economic Challenges in the Development of Sensors for Precision Agriculture

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Field-deployable sensors play an important role in precision agriculture and are used to enable key stakeholders (farmers, agronomists, policy makers, etc.) to make informed decisions about resource management and improve crop yields. Sensor developers must consider technological, economic, and human aspects jointly in order to design a successful sensor. The objective of this review is to describe some of the key strands of each aspect and highlight the need to develop a degree of understanding of all of these aspects in order to create technologies that will be easily and readily adopted. Rather than analyzing each area in depth, we limit our discussion to a few major aspects and try to indicate interdependency and showcase their impact on one another. We hope that this approach will instigate thoughts and ideas and stimulate the co-creation of fit-for-purpose sensors.

Source: Agriculture

DOI: 10.3390/agriculture16010089

Authors: Ernesto Saiz, Faiz Iqbal, Jack H. Grant, Lilian Korir, Sami Ullah, Aleksandar Radu

Institutions: Teesside University, University of Lincoln, University of Birmingham

Language: English

Topic: Smart Agriculture and AI

Subfield: Plant Science

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Zero hunger

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $3,137