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Network as a Sensor in Agriculture

Project team: Lennart Kaiser (Ph.D. Student), Prof. Dr. Nils Aschenbruck (UOS), Dr. Thomas Hänel (UOS), Dr. Sebastian Vogel (ATB), Dr.-Ing. Volker Dworak (ATB)

Communication systems such as public land mobile networks (e.g., 4G/LTE networks) or low-power IoT networks are ubiquitous, nowadays. Temporal variations of the signal strength of such systems can be leveraged for low-cost crop and soil sensing.
The goal of this thesis is to develop new approaches for approximating crop and/or soil parameters.
These approaches will be implemented, deployed, and evaluated on agricultural fields.

References:
Liu et al. Integrated Sensing and Communications: "Toward Dual-Functional Wireless Networks for
6G and Beyond", JSAC, 2022
doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2022.3156632

Bauer, Aschenbruck: “Towards a low-cost RSSI-based Crop Monitoring“ ACM Transactions on
Internet of Things (TIOT), 2020.
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3393667