ABSTRACT
Cyber physical systems (CPS) are those systems that provide the ability to connect the physical world with the virtual world, which is completely associated with the processing of information. There are several contexts in which CPS can exist, one of which is the agricultural industry. When agriculture integrates with CPS, this is termed precision agriculture. It can be defined as a methodology of enhanced decision making, which associates effective management of farm practices, in concert with sensing devices, positioning systems from satellites and the integration with computers to provide information. The cultivation of crops plays a very important role in agriculture. However, proper maintenance and management are required. Lack of such management would lead to crop loss or reduced crop yields. Hence, the ability to detect and identify the diseases on infected crops is a problem of increasing concern. Real-time disease detection systems do not exist in the current scheme of things. It requires tremendous amounts of work, expertise in the plant diseases, and also requires excessive processing time. Using precision agriculture techniques, combined with artificial intelligence, a great deal of manual work is reduced.
