Optimized routing algorithm with AlexNet-ShuffleNet for plant leaf disease and infectious classification in IoT

In agriculture, utilizing images to detect plant leaf diseases is a vital area in precision farming. Typically, trained professionals physically inspect plant tissues to identify disease range. Nowadays, AI has made foremost paces in detecting and classifying plant diseases. Moreover, Internet of Things (IoT) has several applications, containing Agricultural-IoT (AIoT), which is considered to elevate agricultural yields. This paper intends to develop an approach in IoT for plant disease classification. Initially, simulation of IoT is done and the IoT nodes route sensed plant leaf images by proposed Serial Exponential Golf Optimization Algorithm (SEGOA), which is established by modifying Golf Optimization Algorithm (GOA) using Exponential Weighted Moving Average (EWMA) to the destination, where plant leaf disease detection is executed. To extract the RoI, CNN is used to discover diseased part in plant leaf. Then, plant leaves are classified as healthy and diseased subclasses by employing AlexNet-ShuffleNet. Moreover, the disease types are classified more into fungal/bacterial/viral infection using the AlexNet-ShuffleNet. Performance of adopted work is assessed by utilizing the metrics, such as energy, accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity. Overall outcome of AlexNet-ShuffleNet give a promising result, such as accuracy of 94.6%, sensitivity of 98.7% and specificity of 94%.