Poster: Empower Smart Agriculture with RFID Reference Infrastructure

The burgeoning field of smart agriculture is increasingly leveraging unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for data collection. However, inadequate visual features and plant occlusion can hamper visual-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) of UAVs. As a potential solution, RFID can work as an efficient reference infrastructure, enabling a connection between aerial imagery and real-world contexts. Despite this promise, hurdles remain in attaining high-accuracy, high-throughput, and long-range RFID localization, as well as practical deployment of RFID tags and reader implementation on UAVs. Overcoming these challenges holds significant potential, particularly considering their impact on numerous applications, such as large-scale agricultural management and plant stand reduction detection.