Research Article
IoT-Enabled Wireless Sensor Networks in Precision Agriculture: A Survey on Cross-Layer Resilience and Fault Management
@ARTICLE{10.4108/eetinis.132.11509, author={Nuwan Jayawardene and Sulochana Sooriyaarachchi and Chandana Gamage}, title={IoT-Enabled Wireless Sensor Networks in Precision Agriculture: A Survey on Cross-Layer Resilience and Fault Management}, journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems}, volume={13}, number={3}, publisher={EAI}, journal_a={INIS}, year={2026}, month={6}, keywords={Precision Agriculture, Wireless Sensor Networks, Clustering Protocols, Fault Management Frameworks}, doi={10.4108/eetinis.132.11509} }- Nuwan Jayawardene
Sulochana Sooriyaarachchi
Chandana Gamage
Year: 2026
IoT-Enabled Wireless Sensor Networks in Precision Agriculture: A Survey on Cross-Layer Resilience and Fault Management
INIS
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eetinis.132.11509
Abstract
Precision Agriculture (PA) utilizesWireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to continuously monitor and collect dataon both plants and machinery. Thereafter, data-driven proactive decision-making is used for crop protection, yield optimization, and other agriculture management tasks. These WSNs rely on clustering protocols to facilitate sensor node communications. However, the adverse, spatio-temporal nature of agricultural environments and the need for real-time operation pose severe challenges that manifest as physical and protocol-level network faults. This survey adopts a novel perspective of Cross-Layer Resilience in Spatio- Temporal Agricultural IoT to evaluate how hardware-level physical faults cascade into routing failures. We survey a range of clustering protocols and fault management frameworks devised to address these faults using proactive and reactive techniques, ultimately enabling sensor networks to maintain survivability and continuous quality of service.
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