Together: Awareness App and Novel IoT-Enabled SmartAgriculture System using Deep learning

Abstract

Climate change has a profound impact on agriculture, as it depends on climate and environmental conditions. The rise in pests and diseases is a significant threat to crop yields, causing global crop production to experience yearly losses of up to 40% [1]. This loss has severe implications, leading to food insecurity and economic hardship worldwide. These, in turn, cost the global economy billions of dollars and pose a significant threat to global food security. Unfortunately, there is a common misconception that individual actions cannot make a huge difference in the fight against climate change. People tend to believe that the available solutions are too complex and inaccessible, leading to a sense of hopelessness. However, we must realize that acting on an individual level is crucial in the battle against this global crisis. Every effort made, no matter how small, has the power to create a ripple effect and inspire others to do the same. This misconception often stems from a lack of access to tools and knowledge that could help them make a meaningful impact. Our project aims to address this issues by developing 2 main outcomes, the first one is an empowering mobile app that provides a tool for users to help them normalize planting around them through our AI-powered smart planting guide, a community platform for raising awareness about climate change and sharing experiences and a pollution reporting feature and the second is a novel smart agriculture system that will help mitigate the effects of climate change on the agriculture sector. The system aims to provide farms and agricultural domains with comprehensive tools that will enable them to reduce the impact of climate change on crop yields and increase productivity. It will provide farms with a range of features and precision agriculture services like intelligent weed detection (common crop weeds), disease detection in rice and crop recommendation system based on soil analysis and IoT that provide insights to the farmers. The proposed novel smart agriculture system offers many services that address the challenges of climate change by decreasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and increasing crop productivity. The system can reduce the presence of weeds within crops, monitor crop diseases to prevent them from spreading, and recommend crops based on environmental conditions such as humidity, temperature, and rainfall rate.