A smart agriculturing IoT system for banana plants disease detection through inbuilt compressed sensing devices

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for agriculture are rapidly growing and have the potential to transform agriculture in many aspects. In particular, the plant disease detection devices play a vital role in improving the agriculture. The visual monitoring of plants for the onset of diseases is a tedious and time-consuming task for farmers and at the same time it is less accurate. Hence an automated system with environmental data and camera sensors can serve as an alternative and effective solution for manual monitoring of plants. In this paper, a novel and efficient compressed sensing inbuilt plant disease detection device is developed which uses a foreground-based segmentation method and two step feature extraction technique to detect and classify two of the major banana diseases. A database is created for banana bunchy top and sigatoka leaf spot diseases by collecting images in real time from the fields of southern parts of Tamilnadu namely Thadiyankudisai and Thandikudi of Dindigul district, KC Patti, Muthalapuram, Suruli Patti and Kambam of Theni district and ICAR NRCB, Tiruchirapalli. The performance of the proposed device has been evaluated in terms of percentage of the infected areas, the detection accuracy, the percentage of reduction in features and the classification accuracy. The prototype of the proposed device is developed and validated using the Raspberry pi board. The results show that the proposed device achieves detection accuracy of 96.75% and classification accuracy of 97.33%.