Susan J. Rosowski Professor Mehmet Can Vuran will present the next quarterly CSE Tech Talk Series at noon on Friday, Feb. 7 via Zoom.
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“From Soil to the Cloud: Agricultural Internet of Things (Ag-IoT)”
Abstract: The projected increases in World population and need for food have recently motivated adoption of information technology solutions in crop fields and ranches for precision agriculture approaches. The recent developments in low-power wireless communications, sensing technology, and rural networking allow sensing components to be deployed in places where no computer has gone before. Agricultural Internet of Things (Ag-IoT) emerges from this synergy as a prominent candidate to address food production challenges. In this talk, a broad overview of issues in IoT business, technology, and use cases will be provided followed by a specific discussion on Ag-IoT solutions. Moreover, recent developments in wireless communication in confined environments will be discussed within the context of Internet of Underground Things (I-OUT), which is an emerging type of network, where sensors are buried in the ground and communicate through soil, with applications in precision agriculture, mining, environmental monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, and border patrol. Finally, future challenges for Agricultural Internet of Things (Ag-IoT) will be discussed.
Bio: Mehmet Can (Jon) Vuran received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey in 2002. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2004 and 2007, respectively.
Currently, he is the Susan J. Rosowski Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dr. Vuran received an NSF CAREER award in 2010 for “Bringing Wireless Sensor Networks Underground”. In 2014, 2015, and 2016, he was named a highly-cited researcher in computer science by Thomson Reuters. He received a Parents Recognition Award from UNL Parent’s Association in 2016. He is the co-author of Wireless Sensor Networks textbook, TPC Co-Chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2020, and an editor in Computer Networks Journal, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials Journal. His current research interests include Internet of Things, underground communications, cognitive radio networks, and cyber-physical networks.
E-mail: mcv@unl.edu
Website: http://cpn.unl.edu