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Toward Sustainable Greenhouses Using Battery-Free LiFi-Enabled Internet of Things

Authors:

Borja Genoves Guzman,

Javier Talavante,

Dayrene Frometa Fonseca,

Muhammad Sarmad Mir,

Domenico Giustiniano,

Katia Obraczka,

Michael E. Loik,

Sylvie Childress,

Darryl G. WongAuthors Info & Claims

IEEE Communications Magazine, Volume 61, Issue 5

Pages 129 - 135

https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.001.2200489

Published: 01 May 2023 Publication History

Abstract

As the world faces a changing climate, agriculture needs to develop more efficient and sustainable food production systems. Traditional farming methods consume considerable amounts of energy and are largely manually controlled, which leads to sub-optimal production. Green-houses, which enable year-round crop growth, can play an important role in efficient food production. Leveraging the need for artificial light in greenhouses when the natural sunlight available is not sufficient, we envision that recent progress in Internet of Things (IoT) technology, together with novel Light-Fidelity (LiFi)-based methods have the potential to significantly reduce energy and resources used in food production. In this article we describe our work towards sustainable and precision greenhouses by using LiFi-enabled IoT. Here we present a battery-free wireless network of IoT sensor nodes that exploit LiFi for both communication and power harvesting, while monitoring environmental conditions for optimal greenhouse operation and plant production. We highlight the research challenges and the way forward to integrate LiFi to monitor and control greenhouses, as well as a proof-of-concept LiFi-enabled IoT system for a real-world greenhouse.

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May 2023

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Frometa Fonseca DMir MIglesias de Frutos SGenoves Guzman BGiustiniano D(2024)Modulating LiFi for dual operation in the visible and infrared spectraComputer Communications10.1016/j.comcom.2024.01.005216:C(251-259)Online publication date: 15-Feb-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.comcom.2024.01.005

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