Deep intelligence for sustainable farming: a swarm-empowered data analytics architecture

Abstract

The inclusion of complex patterns of data in precision agriculture (PA) induces a greater degree of challenges from the perspective of carrying out conventional analytical operations. Although proliferated use of artificial intelligence (AI) has been noticed to yield some promising results to address such issues, yet they too have many shortcomings. Hence, the current manuscript introduces an innovative hybrid AI scheme towards enhancing the analytical operations necessary for decision-making in smart farming. The proposed scheme hybridizes a deep neural network (DNN) with a novel swarm intelligence (SI) model for optimizing the performance of its adopted deep learning (DL) model. Tested on a standard dataset of agriculture, the proposed model exhibited a 10% increase in accuracy and 40% faster response time when compared with conventional machine learning (ML) models, DL models, and SI models. The study contributes to a novel benchmark towards time-efficient, scalable, and intelligent analytics on PA.