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ArticlePloS one2025

Smart IoT-driven precision agriculture: Land mapping, crop prediction, and irrigation system.

Gourab Saha, Fariha Shahrin, Farhan Hasin Khan, Mashook Mohammad Meshkat, Akm Abdul Malek Azad

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Gourab SahaElectrical and Electronic Engineering Department, BRAC University , Dhaka, Bangladesh.ORCID 0009-0002-0935-3534
Fariha ShahrinElectrical and Electronic Engineering Department, BRAC University , Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Farhan Hasin KhanElectrical and Electronic Engineering Department, BRAC University , Dhaka, Bangladesh.ORCID 0000-0003-0779-2189
Mashook Mohammad MeshkatElectrical and Electronic Engineering Department, BRAC University , Dhaka, Bangladesh.ORCID 0009-0009-4668-1589
Akm Abdul Malek AzadElectrical and Electronic Engineering Department, BRAC University , Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Abstract

As the world population is increasing day by day, so is the need for more advanced automated precision agriculture to meet the increasing demands for food while decreasing labor work and saving water for crops. Recently, there have been many studies done in this field, but very few discuss implementing smart technologies to present a combined sustainable farming system. In this article, we present a complete integrated design of a smart IoT-based suitable agricultural land and crop selection, along with an irrigation system using agricultural mapping, machine learning, and fuzzy logic for precision agriculture. Multi-spectral band images from Landsat-8 satellite images of a chosen land are employed from USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center for extracting indices that are used for agricultural analysis, determining the vegetation index, water index, and salinity index of that land using K-means. Furthermore, crop yield is predicted using Linear Regression and Random Forest, achieving accuracies of 93.49% and 95.87%, respectively, while using RMSE (Root Mean Squared Error) as the loss function. The LSTM model is used for healthy vegetation area forecasting highlighting the changes of the vegetation area over time. Such analysis helps to decide whether that land is suitable for farming or not. Multiple soil-parameter measuring sensors are used to identify suitable crop and fertilizer requirements for that land using IoT and machine learning. The ML model-based crop prediction showed 97.35% accuracy utilizing random forest algorithm. Finally, a fuzzy logic-based solar-powered irrigation system is used to monitor the water requirements of those crops and irrigate them according to their needs. The experimental results demonstrated that fuzzy logic has faster calibration rate of 66.23% and helps to save around 61% water in comparison to average logic algorithm. The implementation of a fuzzy logic algorithm significantly optimized water usage compared to traditional manual irrigation methods. These findings highlight the effectiveness of advanced computational techniques in enhancing agricultural practices and resource management.

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Agricultural IrrigationAgricultureCrops, AgriculturalInternet of ThingsFuzzy LogicMachine LearningSoilSoil

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PMID40100906
PMCPMC11918389

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