Wireless Visual Sensor Network Application in Monitoring and Detection of Agricultural Crop Diseases: Review

Agricultural farming has become increasingly challenging as a result of environmental changes because of the development of pests and diseases that prevent the growth of crops. It's critical to identify any disease early on; before the damaged plants are given the necessary treatment, to guarantee the crops grow healthily and properly. It makes sense to have an automated system because manual disease detection requires a lot of time and labor. Wireless Visual Sensor Network has become an important aspect of the agricultural sector for monitoring and detecting diseases on crops. In WVSN, sensor nodes assembled with cameras are used to gather, analyze, and transmit image and video data using a variety of wireless protocols. Visual data collection is far larger and more complex than it is for standard wireless sensor networks, necessitating the need of intelligent framework design. In this paper, we review currently available hardware platforms, advances in visual sensor deployment, and coverage in WVSNs. This review also focuses on available wireless communication protocols used for visual monitoring and disease detection in agriculture. We conclude that WVSN is an open research area that needs to be focused on agricultural applications with real-time implementation.