6G-Enabled Smart Agriculture: A Review and Prospect
As human society develops, the population is growing explosively and water and land resources are gradually being exhausted due to pollution. Smart agriculture is regarded as having an essential role in addressing the above challenges. Smart agriculture can significantly improve the agro-ecological...
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| author | Fan Zhang Yu Zhang Weidang Lu Yuan Gao Yi Gong Jiang Cao |
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| description | As human society develops, the population is growing explosively and water and land resources are gradually being exhausted due to pollution. Smart agriculture is regarded as having an essential role in addressing the above challenges. Smart agriculture can significantly improve the agro-ecological environment and the yield and quality of agricultural products, and it can reduce the usage of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, thus alleviating the pollution of farmland and improving the sustainability of agricultural activities. The key to smart agriculture is in utilizing information and communication technologies to make agricultural cultivation and production automatic and intelligent. Specifically, wireless communications play an active role in the development of agriculture, and every generation of wireless communication technology drives agriculture to a more intelligent stage. In this article, we first review the wireless technologies which have mature applications in agriculture. Moreover, it is of importance to exploit the up-to-date communication technologies to further promote agricultural development. Therefore, we have surveyed the key technologies in sixth-generation mobile communication systems, as well as their existing and potential applications in smart agriculture. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6f3c0e7acd634d12a0d0ecf43a0df7aa2023-11-23T15:57:37ZengMDPI AGElectronics2079-92922022-09-011118284510.3390/electronics111828456G-Enabled Smart Agriculture: A Review and ProspectFan Zhang0Yu Zhang1Weidang Lu2Yuan Gao3Yi Gong4Jiang Cao5College of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, ChinaCollege of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, ChinaCollege of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, ChinaAcademy of Military Science of PLA, Beijing 100091, ChinaShenzhen Engineering Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing for IoT, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, ChinaAcademy of Military Science of PLA, Beijing 100091, ChinaAs human society develops, the population is growing explosively and water and land resources are gradually being exhausted due to pollution. Smart agriculture is regarded as having an essential role in addressing the above challenges. Smart agriculture can significantly improve the agro-ecological environment and the yield and quality of agricultural products, and it can reduce the usage of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, thus alleviating the pollution of farmland and improving the sustainability of agricultural activities. The key to smart agriculture is in utilizing information and communication technologies to make agricultural cultivation and production automatic and intelligent. Specifically, wireless communications play an active role in the development of agriculture, and every generation of wireless communication technology drives agriculture to a more intelligent stage. In this article, we first review the wireless technologies which have mature applications in agriculture. Moreover, it is of importance to exploit the up-to-date communication technologies to further promote agricultural development. Therefore, we have surveyed the key technologies in sixth-generation mobile communication systems, as well as their existing and potential applications in smart agriculture.https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/18/28456Gsmart agriculturespace–air–ground integrated networksterahertz technologywireless AIintegrated sensing and communication |
| spellingShingle | Fan Zhang Yu Zhang Weidang Lu Yuan Gao Yi Gong Jiang Cao 6G-Enabled Smart Agriculture: A Review and Prospect Electronics 6G smart agriculture space–air–ground integrated networks terahertz technology wireless AI integrated sensing and communication |
| title | 6G-Enabled Smart Agriculture: A Review and Prospect |
| title_full | 6G-Enabled Smart Agriculture: A Review and Prospect |
| title_fullStr | 6G-Enabled Smart Agriculture: A Review and Prospect |
| title_full_unstemmed | 6G-Enabled Smart Agriculture: A Review and Prospect |
| title_short | 6G-Enabled Smart Agriculture: A Review and Prospect |
| title_sort | 6g enabled smart agriculture a review and prospect |
| topic | 6G smart agriculture space–air–ground integrated networks terahertz technology wireless AI integrated sensing and communication |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/18/2845 |
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