A Revolutionary Rural Agricultural Participatory Sensing Approach Using Delay Tolerant Networks
Prateek Gupta, Bhushan Jagyasi, Bighnaraj Panigrahi, Hemant Kumar, Rath, Srinivasu Pappula, Anantha Simha

TL;DR
This paper introduces a Delay Tolerant Network-based model using mobile relays and device-to-device communication to provide timely agro-advisory services to farmers in regions with poor or no network connectivity.
Contribution
The paper presents a novel DTN relay application model that enables end-to-end communication for agro-services in connectivity-challenged rural areas using mobile relays and D2D communication.
Findings
Effective communication in poor network zones achieved
Model successfully tested with tea farmers in West Bengal and Assam
Potential for extension to other rural applications
Abstract
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…
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Taxonomy
TopicsOpportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis · UAV Applications and Optimization
