A Proposed IoT Smart Trap using Computer Vision for Sustainable Pest Control in Coffee Culture
This addresses pest management for coffee farmers, but it is incremental as it applies existing IoT and computer vision technologies to a specific agricultural problem.
The paper tackled pest control in coffee plantations by proposing an IoT smart trap that uses computer vision to identify insects, resulting in a demonstration showing viability as an alternative to pesticides and providing insights into pest concentration.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is emerging as a multi-purpose technology with enormous potential for improving the quality of life in several areas. In particular, IoT has been applied in agriculture to make it more sustainable ecologically. For instance, electronic traps have the potential to perform pest control without any pesticide. In this paper, a smart trap with IoT capabilities that uses computer vision to identify the insect of interest is proposed. The solution includes 1) an embedded system with camera, GPS sensor and motor actuators; 2) an IoT middleware as database service provider, and 3) a Web application to present data by a configurable heat map. The demonstration of proposed solution is exposed and the main conclusions are the perception about pest concentration at the plantation and the viability as alternative pest control over traditional control based on pesticides.