Suhas Patil

By optimising pesticide application based on real-time data, Variable Rate Pesticide Spraying Technologies offer a substantial development in agricultural practices. These devices measure things like crop health, pest presence, and environmental variables using sensors. Farmers can lower chemical usage, save expenses, and improve environmental sustainability by applying pesticides at varied rates to different parts of a field. Ground-based systems with sophisticated mapping capabilities, and software platforms for data analysis and decision-making are important elements of the spraying systems. This focused approach lowers the risk of chemical runoff and the emergence of pest resistance while simultaneously increasing the efficacy of pest management. By adopting these technologies, farmers can achieve a balance between productivity and environmental stewardship, ensuring healthier ecosystems and safer food production.

Recently, the great revolution is taking place in the field of electronic instrumentation for precise measurement of the physical as well as chemical parameters. It is found that, the embedded technology is an innovative and ubiquitous field of electronics instrumentation particularly the development of an embedded instrumentation for plethora of applications. Now days, a novel field of Smart Sensor Module is emerging. Smart Sensor Module is electronic system, wherein the intellectual devices are incorporated along with analog signal condition. It is standardized by IEEE 1451 standard. Therefore, emphasizing the fact that, the confluence of two novel technologies, an ubiquitous embedded technology for development of Smart Sensor Module (SSM) and synthesis of electronic materials for development of sensors required for SSM. The sensors are developed for relative humidity, temperature, CO2 gas, H2S gas and NH3 gas. Moreover, according to IEEE 1451 standards, the Smart sensor module is developed wherein the novel embedded philosophy is employed. The results regarding the synthesis sensor material, hardware design and software designing and obtained results presented in this book.

In recent days the state of art technology is the development of an instrumentation, for industrials, agricultural and R & D etc sectors. Recently, it is found that, the characterization of materials plays vital role in the field of material science. For materials research the different properties of the materials are explored, to investigate the structural details of materials under investigation. The properties to be determined depend upon the material and their application potential. Investigations of various properties, particularly of magnetic materials are of great interest. It is found that, the magnetic material reflects their characteristics through magnetic parameters such as Saturation Magnetization (Ms), Magnetic Moment (ηβ), Initial Permeability (μ), AC susceptibility (χ), Corecivity (Hc), and Retaintivity (Mr) etc. Therefore, in order to investigate the magnetic properties one should use sophisticated instrumentation. Microcontroller based embedded system is found to be most reliable. Therefore, Smart embedded system design issues for measurement of AC Susceptibility of Magnetic Material using high performance Microcontroller presented in this book.

In last few years, the revolutionary advancement is taking place in the technology that embeds low level processing hardware and the application specific software into a chip, resulting into smart embedded systems. It is the electronic design, dedicated to the particular task. It also addresses the issues of the response time constraints of various tasks of the system. Microcontroller based embedded system may either be an independent system or a part of larger system. Due to high reliability and greater flexibility in the upgradation of the functionality, the microcontroller based embedded systems find wide spectrum of applications in the various fields such as test & measurement instrumentation, process control, automobile & consumer electronics, domestic appliances, industrial and R & D applications, etc. The area is ubiquitous and rather more pervasive. Therefore, many researchers are showing interest in this field. Keeping in touch with the state of art technology, based on microcontroller, an embedded system is designed to measure magnetic permeability of the materials and the results regarding the hardware and software designing and implementation presented in this book.