A Survey of Agriculture Applications Utilizing Raspberry Pi

Abstract

Raspberry Pi is one of the most popular electronic prototyping boards used for prototyping the applications such as Home, Industry, Research, Agriculture etc. This paper provides a summary of Raspberry Pi adoption in agriculture to aid researchers in their work for remote sensing, controlling and automation. Soil quality testing, crop selection, soil fertility and productivity detection, weather monitoring, crop yield detection, plant growth monitoring and automatic spraying of fertilizers and pesticides are some of the Raspberry Pi applications which range from simple solutions to dedicated custom-built devices. The focus was mainly on different farming applications in which information is collected and processed to provide advice to farmers to make right decisions in right time with optimal expenditure. Research challenges, limitations and future trends associated with automated application development using Raspberry Pi are also presented.