Towards the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs): A comprehensive review

SAH Mohsan, MA Khan, F Noor, I Ullah, MH Alsharif - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, have come in a great
diversity of several applications such as military, construction, image and video map** …

A comprehensive review of micro UAV charging techniques

SAH Mohsan, NQH Othman, MA Khan, H Amjad… - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
The groundbreaking Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) technology has gained significant
attention from both academia and industrial experts due to several applications, such as …

Energy-efficient wireless sensor networks for precision agriculture: A review

HM Jawad, R Nordin, SK Gharghan, AM Jawad… - Sensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can be used in agriculture to provide farmers with a large
amount of information. Precision agriculture (PA) is a management strategy that employs …

Unmanned aerial vehicles in agriculture: A survey

J Del Cerro, C Cruz Ulloa, A Barrientos… - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
The number of tasks that nowadays are accomplished by using unmanned aerial vehicles is
rising across many civil applications, including agriculture. Thus, this work aims at providing …

Survey on unmanned aerial vehicle networks for civil applications: A communications viewpoint

S Hayat, E Yanmaz, R Muzaffar - … Communications Surveys & …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The days where swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will occupy our skies are fast
approaching due to the introduction of cost-efficient and reliable small aerial vehicles and …

Advanced UAV–WSN system for intelligent monitoring in precision agriculture

D Popescu, F Stoican, G Stamatescu, L Ichim… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
The growing need for food worldwide requires the development of a high-performance, high-
productivity, and sustainable agriculture, which implies the introduction of new technologies …

Internet of underground things in precision agriculture: Architecture and technology aspects

MC Vuran, A Salam, R Wong, S Irmak - Ad Hoc Networks, 2018 - Elsevier
The projected increases in World population and need for food have recently motivated
adoption of information technology solutions in crop fields within precision agriculture …

Energy efficiency in wireless sensor networks: A top-down survey

T Rault, A Bouabdallah, Y Challal - Computer networks, 2014 - Elsevier
The design of sustainable wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a very challenging issue. On
the one hand, energy-constrained sensors are expected to run autonomously for long …

Using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as mobile sensing platforms (MSPs) for disaster response, civil security and public safety

H Hildmann, E Kovacs - Drones, 2019 - mdpi.com
The use of UAVs in areas ranging from agriculture over urban services to entertainment or
simply as a hobby has rapidly grown over the last years. Regarding serious/commercial …

LoRa based intelligent soil and weather condition monitoring with internet of things for precision agriculture in smart cities

DK Singh, R Sobti, A Jain, PK Malik… - IET communications, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Urbanization is expected to hold about 50% of the world population by 2050 and there will
be stress on available resources including food and freshwater. Further, inefficient utilization …