Review of novel and emerging proximal soil moisture sensors for use in agriculture

M Hardie - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
The measurement of soil moisture in agriculture is currently dominated by a small number of
sensors, the use of which is greatly limited by their small sampling volume, high cost, need …

Food supply chains as cyber-physical systems: a path for more sustainable personalized nutrition

S Smetana, K Aganovic, V Heinz - Food Engineering Reviews, 2021 - Springer
Current food system evolved in a great degree because of the development of processing
and food engineering technologies: people learned to bake bread long before the advent of …

LoRaWAN versus NB-IoT: Transmission performance analysis within critical environments

A Lombardo, S Parrino, G Peruzzi… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article focuses on the comparison of transmission performances within critical
environments (ie, underwater, within metal enclosures and underground) for two of the most …

Design, implementation, and empirical validation of an IoT smart irrigation system for fog computing applications based on Lora and Lorawan sensor nodes

I Froiz-Míguez, P Lopez-Iturri, P Fraga-Lamas… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Climate change is driving new solutions to manage water more efficiently. Such solutions
involve the development of smart irrigation systems where Internet of Things (IoT) nodes are …

Internet of underground things in agriculture 4.0: Challenges, applications and perspectives

C Cariou, L Moiroux-Arvis, F Pinet, JP Chanet - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Internet of underground things (IoUTs) and wireless underground sensor networks (WUSNs)
are new technologies particularly relevant in agriculture to measure and transmit …

Evaluation of LoRa technology in 433-MHz and 868-MHz for underground to aboveground data transmission

L Moiroux-Arvis, C Cariou, JP Chanet - Computers and Electronics in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The development of Wireless Underground Sensor Networks (WUSNs) is currently
receiving significant attention to collect data underground all along the year without …

Efficient energy mechanism in heterogeneous WSNs for underground mining monitoring applications

R Alsaqour, ES Ali, RA Mokhtar, RA Saeed… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) play an important role in underground mining
applications. In particular, they help to collect information using sensors and provide …

Industry 4.0 and beyond: a review of the literature on the challenges and barriers facing the Agri-Food supply chain

A Derakhti, EDR Santibanez Gonzalez, A Mardani - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
In recent years, the Industry 4.0 concept has gained considerable attention from
professionals, researchers and decision makers. For its part, the COVID-19 pandemic has …

LoRaWAN underground to aboveground data transmission performances for different soil compositions

G Di Renzone, S Parrino, G Peruzzi… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The aim of this article is to discuss the usability of the long-range (LoRa) transmission
technology together with the LoRa wide-area network (LoRaWAN) protocol for underground …

A wireless underground sensor network field pilot for agriculture and ecology: Soil moisture mapping using signal attenuation

S Balivada, G Grant, X Zhang, M Ghosh, S Guha… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Wireless Underground Sensor Networks (WUSNs) that collect geospatial in situ sensor data
are a backbone of internet-of-things (IoT) applications for agriculture and terrestrial ecology …