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A Revolutionary Rural Agricultural Participatory Sensing Approach Using Delay Tolerant Networks

Prateek Gupta·Bhushan Jagyasi·Bighnaraj Panigrahi·Hemant Kumar Rath·Srinivasu Pappula·Anantha Simha
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To provide sustainable digital agro-advisory services to farmers, seamless flow of information from the farmers to the experts/expert systems, and vice versa is required. The query generated by the farmers, which may contain multimedia data regarding disease or pest attack in the crops is required to be transmitted to the experts for analysis. Further, after analyzing the query, an alert or advice from the expert system is required to be communicated back to the farmers within some tolerable delay. However, in a country like India, network connectivity is extremely poor in several agricultural regions which makes the end-to-end connectivity between the farmers and the expert system intermittent. Therefore, providing agro-advisory services to farmers in a reasonable time becomes a challenge. In this paper, we propose a Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) based relay application model which enables agro-advisory services to farmers located in \emph{No-network} or \emph{Poor-network} zones. In the proposed model, end-to-end communication has been enabled with the help of Device to Device (D2D) communication and by introducing mobile relay nodes which can carry the queries (responses), from (to) the poor or no network zones to (from) the zones where communication is possible. Implementation of this model has been presented for the tea farmers of West Bengal and Assam, which can be extended for various other applications in future.

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Prateek Gupta, Bhushan Jagyasi, Bighnaraj Panigrahi, Hemant Kumar Rath, Srinivasu Pappula, Anantha Simha. 2016-12-09. A Revolutionary Rural Agricultural Participatory Sensing Approach Using Delay Tolerant Networks. https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.02927

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