qCrop: An IoT Based Framework to Enhance Crop Productivity in Smart Agriculture

Food is crucial in our life. Despite food manufacturers' efforts to meet consumers' needs with manufactured food, it cannot attain the identical level of quality and flavor as natural food. Some fruits and vegetables are classified as food that cannot be manufactured. Also, they play an essential role worldwide. This paper focuses on how farmers can protect their farms from an object that might threaten the crops and cause damage to them. It proposes a framework that farmers may utilize to safeguard the crops against any species of birds. Considering the adverse impact of bird attacks on crop production, this system effectively addresses this problem and consistently enhances the quality and quantity of them. It utilizes computer vision technology to establish a secure environment for the crop. This system is called Quality of Crop Device (qCrop), and it works with a You Only Look Once (Yolov8m) model to detect birds with high accuracy to protect farms.