Ambient IoT: Communications Enabling Precision Agriculture
One of the most intriguing 6G vertical markets is precision agriculture, where communications, sensing, control, and robotics technologies are used to improve agricultural outputs and decrease environmental impact. Ambient IoT (A-IoT), which uses a network of devices that harvest ambient energy to enable communications, is expected to play an important role in agricultural use cases due to its low costs, simplicity, and battery-free (or battery-assisted) operation. In this article, we review the use cases of precision agriculture and discuss the challenges. We discuss how A-IoT can be used for precision agriculture and compare it with other ambient energy source technologies. We also discuss research directions related to both A-IoT and precision agriculture.
Authors
- David J. Love (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5922-4787)
- Chih-Chun Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1685-820X)
- Fabio A. Castiblanco (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2269-0319)
- Amitava Ghosh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1623-0236)
- Dennis R. Buckmaster (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5586-141X)
- M. Majid Butt
- James V. Krogmeier (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7041-2113)
- Ashwin Natraj Arun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1558-3099)
- Byung-Hyun Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2985-0861)
Institutions
- Purdue University West Lafayette (US)
- American Standard (United States) (US)
- Nokia (United States) (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- IEEE Communications Magazine
- Published
- 2025-03-31
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/mcom.003.2400508
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Smart Agriculture and AI
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 8.75
Funders
- National Science Foundation