Crop monitoring system utilizes IoT, AI and other tech to optimize yields, lower costs

South Dakota State University researchers presented a high -tech system to help farmers optimize crop yields while reducing costs during the annual meeting of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. The system, detailed in the integration of IoT and the transmission of secure data in a culture monitoring system, follows and analyzes the development of cultures thanks to the data collected by sensors, biocapper, the Internet of Objects and AI.

While the majority of projects that build systems using IoT only simulate post-aptum security on superordinators, the work presented by Professor SDSU Lin Wei and his doctorate. The student Manish shrestha implemented security in an end -to -end application in the real world, a cloud sensor.

“This work has shown that a solid security and the test of future can operate directly on small devices, potentially eliminating the need for large servers to protect IoT data,” said Shrestha. “This guarantees that agricultural data remains private, verifiable and resilient – even against future quantum computer attacks.”

The data protection of farmers collected by the system was imperative for Shrestha and the team, which used advanced safety protocols, encryption and cryptography to ensure that the massive amount of data was safe while being stored and analyzed in the cloud. The data included ground conditions such as temperature, humidity and available nutrients; Potential stress of plants such as nutrient deficiencies, the presence of disease and threats of pests; and environmental factors.

Once the data of all these measures have been analyzed by the researchers, they were presented to farmers, which allows them to make more informed decisions on their management practices, including irrigation, fertilization, the fight against diseases and pests, without risking information from their operation.

The importance of increased cybersecurity practices in agricultural applications was a hot topic in Reunion.

“Our research has received considerable attention, many experts emphasizing how cybersecurity must be a central element when developing smart agricultural technologies,” said Shrestha. “There was a common thread of people recognizing the need for a secure infrastructure for all the data that farmers collect.”

The research team plans to improve their system in the near future by accelerating the processing of sensor data and using a solar battery rather than chemical to lengthen time between charges, among other updates.