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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Smart agriculture"”.
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Plant-Wearable Electronics for Climate-Smart Agriculture: Toward Energy-Autonomous Bio-Impedance Monitoring Systems
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Faulty sensor detection using data correlation of multivariant sensor reading in smart agriculture with IOT
… information radically. Through sensor networks, agriculture can be connected to the IoT, which allows us to create connections among agronomists, farmers and crops regardless of their geographical differences. On the other hand, Sensor fault is critical in smart grids, where controllers rely on …
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Three essays on the adoption, impact, and pathways of climate-smart agriculture: An ex-post impact evaluation of a natural resource management intervention in southern Malawi
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Faulty sensor detection mechanism using multi-variate sensors in IoT
… can be implemented in many applications such as smart cities, smart agriculture, smart health, smart home and etc. IoT devices are equipped with sensors such as temperature, humidity, pulse sensor, smoke and etc., offer many types of services for these applications. IoT devices are lightweight …
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Conjunctures in Law and Development: Assemblages for Progress in Indian Agricultural Futures
… rationalities of India's current Climate Smart Agriculture development initiatives? To answer this question, I construct a theoretical/methodological framework that brings together conjunctural analysis, assemblage theory, Foucaultian governmentality, and transnational legal pluralism. I …
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An autonomous decision support system for smart farming to increase crop productivity
Today, agriculture faces many challenges, most notably the significant and continuous increase in population, which requires more agricultural products to meet people’s food needs. Other challenges include global climate change, which has recently increased inefficiency due to drought, …
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Crop traits to improve plant water relations under abiotic stresses
… to support breeding programs in light of climate-smart agriculture and sustainability, and finally to ensure food security. The studies are focused on tomato and grapevine, as they are currently the model crops for vegetable and woody species, respectively, and with the highest agricultural …
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Energy-Efficient and Trustworthy Location-Based Services for Next-Generation IoT
… as diverse as industrial automation, healthcare, smart cities, and precision agriculture. Yet, delivering LBS that are at once energy-efficient, accurate, and trustworthy remains an open challenge, particularly in dynamic and resource-constrained IoT environments. Conventional positioning systems, …
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Hybrid Solutions for Mechatronics. Applications to modeling and controller design.
… has been rarely employed, or not at all, namely smart agriculture and trajectory tracking for a bipedal walking robot. We study these application-inspired problems from a theoretical point of view, giving robust Lyapunov-based stability guarantees. We complement the theoretical analysis with …
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Examining the drivers of adoption of climate-smart practices in smallholder farming systems of Zvimba District in Zimbabwe
… of climate change exert pressure on food and agriculture systems. In sub-Saharan Africa, climate change has far-reaching adverse impacts on the livelihoods of smallholder farmers, elevating the urgency to increase agricultural productivity and incomes, and resilience of food and agricultural …
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Tractor Rental Services In Kenya: Understanding Mechanization and Changes in Agricultural Production among Smallholder Farmers
… household survey data from Kenya Climate Smart Agriculture Project (KCSAP) and the National Agricultural and Rural Inclusive Growth Project (NARIGP). An instrumental variable approach is employed to address potential endogeneity arising from unobserved factors that affect both the nearby …
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Secure Networking and Efficient Computing in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Assisted Green IoT Networks
… sustainability in various applications such as smart cities, wildfire detection, military operations, and smart agriculture. UAVs, equipped with cameras, LiDAR, and radar, excel in providing remote sensing capability with high mobility and significant computational capacities. However, their …
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Printed stretchable strain sensors for plant growth monitoring
… biomass on earth and are critical to ecology and agriculture. However, the direct measurement of plant growth with minimal human intervention has been challenging. Wearable strain sensors have made a great impact in various areas including human motion detection, health monitoring, soft robotics, …
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RoboFly: Towards Autonomous Flight of a Multimodal Insect-Scale Robot
… in disaster response, and crop monitoring for smart agriculture. Insect-sized flapping-wing robots draw inspiration from nature's tiny machines such as flies and bees. Earlier iterations of these robots have successfully demonstrated hovering flight. However, there are some limitations to their …
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Supporting User Interactions with Smart Built Environments
… domains that can benefit from IoT include smart buildings, smart cities, smart water, smart agriculture, smart animal farming, smart metering, security and emergencies, retail, logistics, industrial control, and health care. For decades, building automation, intelligent buildings, and more …
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Adoption of Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices and Their Impacts on the Welfare of Livestock Farming Households in Pakistan
… rural communities due to their heavy reliance on agriculture and livestock activities. Adoption of climate-smart agricultural (CSA) practices has emerged as an important strategy which can enhance resilience to climate change, reduce GHG emissions, and sustainably increase agricultural …
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Lightweight edge AI vision models for IoT-based insect monitoring
Smart automated insect monitoring is essential for early detection of insect pest infestations in orchards. It assists farmers in controlling insect pest populations in their fields and preventing crop losses and improving crop quality. Traditional approaches relying on manual inspections are …
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Environmental Impact of Pasture-Based Milk Production in Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems
The environmental impact of agricultural production systems, particularly dairy farming, has become central to discussions on climate change and sustainability, especially in regions with high agricultural activity and policy-driven climate targets. This dissertation investigated the environmental …