Wireless senors for modern agriculture in KSA: A survey
Agriculture in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is not same as in other part of world where scarcity of water and very intense weather condition makes it more challenging. With the advancement in technology, sensors and other wireless devices are being integrated in different daily life applications. Agriculture is one of them, where sensor networks can be used to improve the quality and quantity of yield by utilizing precise amount of resources where water is the most critical. Wireless sensors for Smart Agriculture (SA) are being used from many years but facing different challenges like large and remote geographical areas, limited or unavailable communication infrastructure, reliability of un attendant sensor nodes etc. Typical challenges faced by SA are even overstated in the considering case study by adding worst weather condition, and tight irrigation supervision. The purpose of this article is to survey the potential technologies and sensing devices that can be used in KSA environment to acquire data from field same time providing plausible mechanism to aggregate it. The most important objective of this survey is to identify such modifications, customizations or supplement parameters that are required to incorporate in SA system to adopt it for KSA environment.