IoT-based prediction and classification framework for smart farming using adaptive multi-scale deep networks

Abstract

Agriculture is one of the prime economical sources of India and most of the people directly or indirectly depend on farming. The researchers are focusing on plant ailment detection and managing the imbalanced nutrition in plants. Automation is introduced in agricultural fields and most of these automation strategies use the Internet of Things (IoT) for enhance productivity and automate processes. With the help of several deep and machine learning approaches the endless decision-making performance is performed. Here, the endless decision performance shows appropriate outcomes which helps to solve the unstructured problems in smart farming. It is monitored that the traditional analysis doesn’t have enough decision-making ability in the selection of fertilizer quantity that is to be used in farming. This inability leads to crop ailments and that affects the lifestyle of humans too. So, the prior detection of ailments in crops is essential. Enforcing Smart Agriculture is a hot topic in research nowadays to overcome crop damage in the future. Therefore, a new IoT-based smart farming model using deep learning is proposed to increase crop yield. By detecting disease, pests, smart irrigation, and yield, the smart farming model can reduce the amount of water and chemicals used in agriculture. This smart farming model consists of four phases a) disease prediction, b) pest detection c) smart irrigation, and d) yield prediction. In the first phase, the crop images are gathered from online datasets. The diseases in crops are predicted using Multi-scale Adaptive CNN with LSTM layer (MA-CNN-LSTM), where the parameters in MA-CNN-LSTM are optimized using Advanced Mountaineering Team-Based Optimization Algorithm (AMTBO). In the second phase, the input images are given to MA-CNN-LSTM to detect crop pests. Here, the AMTBO is utilized for tuning parameters. In the third phase, the soil quality and environment data are fed into the Multi-scale Adaptive 1DCNN with LSTM layer (MA-1D CNN-LSTM) to predict the smart irrigation, where the parameter optimization is done using the AMTBO. Smart irrigation enhances the growth of crops and minimizes water usage. In the final phase, the input data such as crop quality, soil quality, and environment data are given to the MA-1D CNN-LSTM to check the overall yield prediction in an agricultural region. Here, the parameters in MA-1D CNN-LSTM are optimized via the AMTBO. The simulation results are compared with other algorithms and classification techniques to check the performance of the developed model.