Despite the increasing population (the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimates 70% more food will be needed in 2050 than was produced in 2006), issues related to food production have yet to be completely addressed. In recent years, Internet of Things technology has begun to be used to address different industrial and technical challenges to meet this growing need. These Agro-IoT tools boost productivity and minimize the pitfalls of traditional farming, which is the backbone of the world's economy. Aided by the IoT, continuous monitoring of fields provides useful and critical information to farmers, ushering in a new era in farming. The IoT can be used as a tool to combat climate change through greenhouse automation; monitor and manage water, soil and crops; increase productivity; control insecticides/pesticides; detect plant diseases; increase the rate of crop sales; cattle monitoring etc. Agricultural Informatics: Automation Using the IoT and Machine Learning focuses on all these topics, including a few case studies, and they give a clear indication as to why these techniques should now be widely adopted by the agriculture and farming industries.

Table of Contents:
Preface xiii 1 A Study on Various Machine Learning Algorithms and Their Role in Agriculture 1 Kalpana Rangra and Amitava Choudhury 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Conclusions 9 2 Smart Farming Using Machine Learning and IoT 13 Alo Sen, Rahul Roy and Satya Ranjan Dash 2.1 Introduction 14 2.2 Related Work 15 2.3 Problem Identification 22 2.4 Objective Behind the Integrated Agro-IoT System 23 2.5 Proposed Prototype of the Integrated Agro-IoT System 23 2.6 Hardware Component Requirement for the Integrated Agro-IoT System 26 2.7 Comparative Study Between Raspberry Pi vs Beaglebone Black 30 2.8 Conclusions 31 2.9 Future Work 32 3 Agricultural Informatics vis-à-vis Internet of Things (IoT): The Scenario, Applications and Academic Aspects--International Trend & Indian Possibilities 35 P.K. Paul 3.1 Introduction 36 3.2 Objectives 36 3.3 Methods 37 3.4 Agricultural Informatics: An Account 37 3.5 Agricultural Informatics & Technological Components: Basics & Emergence 40 3.6 IoT: Basics and Characteristics 41 3.7 IoT: The Applications & Agriculture Areas 43 3.8 Agricultural Informatics & IoT: The Scenario 45 3.9 IoT in Agriculture: Requirement, Issues & Challenges 49 3.10 Development, Economy and Growth: Agricultural Informatics Context 50 3.11 Academic Availability and Potentiality of IoT in Agricultural Informatics: International Scenario & Indian Possibilities 51 3.12 Suggestions 60 3.13 Conclusion 60 4 Application of Agricultural Drones and IoT to Understand Food Supply Chain During Post COVID-19 67 Pushan Kumar Dutta and Susanta Mitra 4.1 Introduction 68 4.2 Related Work 69 4.3 Smart Production With the Introduction of Drones and IoT 72 4.4 Agricultural Drones 75 4.5 IoT Acts as a Backbone in Addressing COVID-19 Problems in Agriculture 77 4.6 Conclusion 81 5 IoT and Machine Learning-Based Approaches for Real Time Environment Parameters Monitoring in Agriculture: An Empirical Review 89 Parijata Majumdar and Sanjoy Mitra 5.1 Introduction 90 5.2 Machine Learning (ML)-Based IoT Solution 90 5.3 Motivation of the Work 91 5.4 Literature Review of IoT-Based Weather and Irrigation Monitoring for Precision Agriculture 91 5.5 Literature Review of Machine Learning-Based Weather and Irrigation Monitoring for Precision Agriculture 92 5.6 Challenges 112 5.7 Conclusion and Future Work 113 6 Deep Neural Network-Based Multi-Class Image Classification for Plant Diseases 117 Alok Negi, Krishan Kumar and Prachi Chauhan 6.1 Introduction 117 6.2 Related Work 119 6.3 Proposed Work 121 6.4 Results and Evaluation 124 6.5 Conclusion 127 7 Deep Residual Neural Network for Plant Seedling Image Classification 131 Prachi Chauhan, Hardwari Lal Mandoria and Alok Negi 7.1 Introduction 131 7.2 Related Work 136 7.3 Proposed Work 139 7.4 Result and Evaluation 142 7.5 Conclusion 144 8 Development of IoT-Based Smart Security and Monitoring Devices for Agriculture 147 Himadri Nath Saha, Reek Roy, Monojit Chakraborty and Chiranmay Sarkar 8.1 Introduction 148 8.2 Background & Related Works 150 8.3 Proposed Model 155 8.4 Methodology 160 8.5 Performance Analysis 165 8.6 Future Research Direction 166 8.7 Conclusion 167 9 An Integrated Application of IoT-Based WSN in the Field of Indian Agriculture System Using Hybrid Optimization Technique and Machine Learning 171 Avishek Banerjee, Arnab Mitra and Arindam Biswas 9.1 Introduction 172 9.2 Literature Review 175 9.3 Proposed Hybrid Algorithms (GA-MWPSO) 177 9.4 Reliability Optimization and Coverage Optimization Model 179 9.5 Problem Description 181 9.6 Numerical Examples, Results and Discussion 182 9.7 Conclusion 183 10 Decryption and Design of a Multicopter Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for Heavy Lift Agricultural Operations 189 Raghuvirsinh Pravinsinh Parmar 10.1 Introduction 190 10.2 History of Multicopter UAVs 192 10.3 Basic Components of Multicopter UAV 193 10.4 Working and Control Mechanism of Multicopter UAV 207 10.5 Design Calculations and Selection of Components 210 10.6 Conclusion 218 11 IoT-Enabled Agricultural System Application, Challenges and Security Issues 223 Himadri Nath Saha, Reek Roy, Monojit Chakraborty and Chiranmay Sarkar 11.1 Introduction 224 11.2 Background & Related Works 226 11.3 Challenges to Implement IoT-Enabled Systems 232 11.4 Security Issues and Measures 240 11.5 Future Research Direction 243 11.6 Conclusion 244 12 Plane Region Step Farming, Animal and Pest Attack Control Using Internet of Things 249 Sahadev Roy, Kaushal Mukherjee and Arindam Biswas 12.1 Introduction 250 12.2 Proposed Work 254 12.3 Irrigation Methodology 257 12.4 Sensor Connection Using Internet of Things 259 12.5 Placement of Sensor in the Field 263 12.6 Conclusion 267 References 268 Index 271