Environmental and Agricultural Applications of Sensors

Environmental sensors are compact, friendly tools that help farmers manage their fields more effectively and avoid crop and plant disease by keeping track of the weather, water, irradiation, and soil moisture levels. Science and technology are committed to developing fresh approaches to addressing pollution levels, water and energy shortages, and climate change as worries about it continue to grow. The development of Internet of Things (IoT) technology offers a singular chance to motivate measures to maintain the safety and health of our planet and accomplish smart digital farming. As a result, environmental parameter monitoring systems enable the gathering and analysis of a wide range of data that can be applied to agriculture, energy conservation, water management, and irrigation. Sensors buried in the ground or submerged in water gather information about their surroundings and utilize it to notify farmers of specific weather patterns or soil conditions that could affect crops. Farmers can help agriculture with the best tools available thanks to sensors. Water monitoring sensors, which are submerged, keep an eye on the eutrophication of lakes and enclosed water basins by measuring the amount of nutrients in the water and ensuring correct re-oxygenation. By combining data from weather monitoring sensors that measure temperature, climate, and plant health, factors that precede the emergence of crop and plant diseases can be predicted.

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Abbreviations

Air quality index

Crop water stress index

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

Environmental sensor networks

General Packet Radio Services

Global positioning system

Indoor air quality

Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

Internet of Things

Micro electrical mechanical system

National Center for Sensor Research

Normalized difference vegetation index

Polymerase chain reaction

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Sustainable Development Goals

Smart environment monitoring

Soil moisture content

Soil moisture sensor

Sensor network server

Surface plasmon resonance

Unmanned aerial vehicles

United States Environmental Protection Agency

Visible and near-infrared

Volatile organic compounds

World Health Organization

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  1. Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt Esraa E. Ammar & Amr E. Keshta
  2. Botany Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt Ali A. S. Sayed
  3. Physics Department, Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt Maisara M. Rabee
  4. Physics Department, Islamic University of Gaza, Gaza, Palestine Malek G. Daher
  5. Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Assiut, Egypt Gomaa A. M. Ali
  6. Faculty of Advanced Basic Science, Galala University, Suez, Egypt Gomaa A. M. Ali
  7. New Assiut Technological University, New Assiut City, Assiut, Egypt Gomaa A. M. Ali
  1. Esraa E. Ammar