IoT-Enabled IEEE 802.15.4 WSN Monitoring Infrastructure-Driven Fuzzy-Logic-Based Crop Pest Prediction

Precision agriculture, as the future of farming technology, addresses challenges faced by farmers by data mining of information collected through IoT-enabled crop monitoring infrastructures. The identification of crop disease is one of the widely studied challenges. Crop diseases cannot be accurately predicted by merely analyzing individual disease causes. This proposal presents a fuzzy-logic-based pest prediction mechanism assisting in beforehand preparedness for potential pest prevention. The experiments are performed for pests in rice and millet crops. The data mining over samples collected in a cropping cycle revealed the plausible correlation between temperature, relative humidity, and rainfall with pest breeding. The data collected through IoT monitoring infrastructure is analyzed for the ambient breeding condition of the pest. These conditions are then employed to design the knowledge base of the fuzzy system. More specifically, the linguistic variables of the fuzzy membership function are optimized using a genetic algorithm for close prediction of pest breeding in given environmental conditions. The proposal verified that the weather factors have a strong impact on the occurrence of pests and diseases, and the fuzzy-logic-based pest prediction through IoT application development services will help farmers to take precautionary measures beforehand.