Edge Computing in Precision agriculture

Abstract

The computing capability of small embedded systems has greatly increased in the last few years. There are many small devices available in the market with several wireless interfaces, such as Bluetooth, WiFi, Zigbee and LoRa, and high computing capacity. Moreover, the power consumption of these devices has been reduced very much in the last decade. Researchers and industry developers are taking profit from these advances to include complex algorithms and even artificial intelligence in edge nodes in order to process the gathered data locally and run complex communication protocols. In this keynote speech we will show how edge computing systems can improve precision agriculture. Moreover, we will show how edge computing has been applied in several Spanish and European projects.