Advanced Technologies for Smart Agriculture

This book brings new smart farming methodologies to the forefront, sparked by pervasive applications with automated farming technology. New indigenous expertise on smart agricultural technologies is presented along with conceptual prototypes showing how the Internet of Things, cloud computing, machine learning, deep learning, precision farming, crop management systems, etc., will be used in large-scale production in the future. The necessity of available welfare systems for farmers’ well-being is also discussed in the book. It draws the conclusion that there is a greater need and demand today for smart farming methodologies driven by technology than ever before.

Dr. K. Kalaiselvi is currently working as Professor, School of Computing Sciences, Vels Institute of Science, Technology and Advanced Studies, Chennai, India, a well-known university. She has more than 20 years of teaching experience at both UG and PG level. Her research interests include knowledge management, data mining, embedded systems, wireless sensor networks, big data analytics and knowledge mining. She has published more than 90 research papers in various international journals, including Scopus Indexing, Web of Science and UGC care list Journals. She has also published chapters for various publishers like Springer, Wiley, and Emerald Publishing. She has acted as editor and reviewer for various reputed journals. She acted as editor for the book "Handbook on Intelligent Healthcare Analytics - Knowledge Engineering with Bigdata" in 2022. She has also published books including "Protocol to learn C Programming Language", "Tryambaka Programming Code {C, C++, Java}", and "A Handbook on Python Programming for Naive Seekers to Expertise", and "Programming in Java Beginners Guide". She has received the Best Researcher award, Young Educator and Scholar award, and Best Faculty award from various reputed organizations.

Dr. A. Jose Anand received his Diploma from the State Board of Technical Education, Tamil Nadu in 1995, Bachelor of Engineering Degree from Institution of Engineers (INDIA), Calcutta in 2003, Master of Engineering in Embedded System Technologies from Anna University, Chennai in 2006, Master of Arts in Public Administration from Annamalai University in 2000 Master of Business Administration from Alagappa University in 2007, and Ph.D. (Information and Communication Engineering) from Anna University in 2017. He received State 3rd Rank in Bachelor of Engineering. He is a Member of CSI, IEI, IET, IETE, ISTE, INS, QCFI and EWB. He has one year of industrial experience and 23 years of teaching experience. He has presented several papers at National Conferences and International Conferences. He has published several papers in national and international journals, and also books for polytechnic and engineering subjects. He is recognized as a research supervisor by Anna University.

Dr. Poonam Tanwar received his B.Tech and M.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering from Maharishi Dayanand University, India in 2001 and 2009 respectively, and his Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from the Uttarakhand Technical University, India in 2015. She has 18 years of teaching experience working as associate professor in Manav Rachna International Institute of Research & Studies, Faridabad, India. She has published more than 50 research papers in various International Journals and Conferences. She has one copyright and filled 6 patents. She edited the book "Big Data Analytics and Intelligence: A Perspective for Health Care" in 2019 published by Emerald. She was Guest Editor for a special issue "Advancement in Machine Learning (ML) and Knowledge Mining (KM)" for International Journal of Recent Patents in Engineering (UAE). She has been awarded the woman researcher award by VDGOODS Academy Chennai. She has organized various Science and Technology awareness programs for rural development. She is a technical program committee member for various international conferences like ICIC 2018, ICFNN, Rome (Italy), European Conference on Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval, Berlin (Europe), etc.

Dr. Haider Raza, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE), University of Ulster, UK. Haider Raza received a bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from the Integral University, India in 2008, a master's degree in computer engineering from the Manav Rachna International University, India in 2011, and a PhD in computer science from University of Ulster, UK in 2016. During his PhD, he won the best-literature review award sponsored by McGraw Hill. He is currently a Lecturer in AI for decision making at the School of Computer Science and Electronics Engineering, University of Essex, UK. Dr. Raza has a strong academic track record and a developing international profile. Highlights of his work include research funding (£620k) as PI for a range of research projects in the domains of healthcare analytics, business, and environmental science by Innovate UK, ESRC and NHS Trusts. He has published in peer-reviewed journals such as IEEE TNSRE, IEEE JBHI, and IEEE TCDS, and 16 conference papers in major international conferences. He is currently leading on two knowledge transfer partnership projects (KTP) and supervising two post-doc KTP associates funded by Innovate UK and has led on a project in healthcare with East Suffolk North Essex Foundation Trust on AI-based cancer pathways.