Smart Field Monitoring: An Application of Cyber-Physical Systems in Agriculture (Work in Progress)

A huge amount of grain and food is lost to the pests and particularly rats, and environment is contaminated due to using pesticides. For rodent\´s control there has been no systematic high-tech solution until now. We aim to develop a "Smart Pest Control" solution (SPeC), particularly a "Rat Detection System" (RDS) in order to provide an infrastructure for monitoring rats in the agriculture field. We believe this system can help pest control experts in reducing tremendous costs for rat\´s control as well as huge amount of crop waste, and environment contamination. We will propose our solution based on cyber-physical systems (CPSs) and will elucidate enabling technologies and frontiers for this research.