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Detection and Mitigation of Fruit Leaf Plant Diseases Using IoT with Machine Learning Techniques

Open Access
|Aug 2026

Figures & Tables

Figure 1:

Block diagram of the proposed work.

Table 1:

Data collection for plant disease prediction using IoT sensors

Sensor typeMeasurement typeNumerical value (range/example)
Hyperspectral sensorsColor variations (RGB values)Red: 0–255, Green: 0–255, Blue: 0–255
Moisture levels0%–100% (e.g., 25% indicates moderate moisture)
Plant stress levels0–100 (e.g., 45 indicates moderate stress)
Electrochemical sensorspH levels4–9 (e.g., 6.2 for healthy, 4.5 for stressed plants)
Chemical composition (e.g., Chlorophyll)0–100 µg/g (e.g., 35 µg/g indicates healthy leaves)
Environmental sensorsAmbient temperature (°C)10–40 (e.g., 25°C for typical growing conditions)
Humidity (%)30–80 (e.g., 50% for ideal conditions)
Soil moisture (%)0–100 (e.g., 30% for well-watered soil)
Symptoms observed (leaf)Leaf discoloration (RGB value)Red: 160, Green: 120, Blue: 100 (e.g., early anthracnose)
Wilting (percentage of leaf area affected)0%–100% (e.g., 40% for early-stage wilting)
Lesions (size in mm2)0–100 mm2 (e.g., 25 mm2 for moderate lesion size)
Chlorosis (leaf color change from green)RGB values, e.g., Red: 150, Green: 180, Blue: 120 for chlorosis

[i] IoT, Internet-of-Things.

Figure 2:

Avocado fruit leaf disease. (A) Avocado plant showing symptoms of Verticillium wilt, including leaf wilting and chlorosis; (B) Avocado fruit infected with anthracnose showing dark necrotic lesions and tissue decay.

Figure 3:

IoT-enabled smart agriculture for disease detection and crop management. IoT, Internet-of-Things.

Table 2:

HSTSF-AT

Algorithm 1: HSTSF-AT
Collect Data: Sensors are used to acquire spectral and thermal data.
Preprocess Data: To clear up the datasets and clear out noise.
Normalize Data: Normalize spectral and thermal on a standard scale to compare data.
Fuse Data: Index and interpolation are statistical techniques to combine datasets.
Assign Weights: If it is not too sensitive to plant conditions, you give less and moderate weights when the data is perfect.
Set Thresholding: Basic statistics can tell you where the curve is centered and how broad it may be.
Set Dynamic Thresholds: The peaks can be found by looking past noise, using modestly filtered data derivative.
Detect Disease: Review the fused signal against the go-to.
Knowledge Representation: For security module implementation, it should be created as you venture into something new (for example, this one).
Generate Alerts: If the data exceeds thresholds, note the disease in a letter.
Take Action: Provide timely notice to help farmers better control disease.

[i] HSTSF-AT, hybrid spectral thermal sensor fusion with adaptive thresholding.

Table 3:

Spectral–thermal fusion weight optimization results

Spectral weight (w1)Thermal weight (w2)Validation accuracy (%)
0.30.788.2
0.50.591.4
0.60.492.1
Table 4:

HVT-CNN architecture and training hyperparameter configuration

ParameterValue
CNN layers5
Transformer layers4
Patch size16 × 16
Embedding dimension256
OptimizerAdam
Learning rate0.0001
Batch size32
Epochs50
Loss functionCross-entropy

[i] HVT-CNN, hybrid vision transformers and convoluted neural networks.

Figure 4:

CNN leaf disease classification. CNN, convolutional neural networks.

Table 5:

IoT sensor deployment configuration

SensorTypeSampling intervalCalibration method
HyperspectralReflectance10 minWhite reference
ThermalInfrared10 minBlackbody
Soil moistureProbe10 minSoil standard
pHElectrochemicalHourlyBuffer solution

[i] IoT, Internet-of-Things.

Figure 5:

Impact of RSAF on disease detection accuracy. RSAF, region-specific adaptive filters.

Table 6:

Comparative performance of preprocessing methods for avocado leaf disease classification

MethodAccuracy (%)F1-score
Histogram equalization84.30.83
CLAHE86.90.86
Bilateral filter87.50.87
RSAF (proposed)92.00.91

[i] CLAHE, contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization; RSAF, region-specific adaptive filtering.

Figure 6:

Confusion matrix for actual and predicted disease detection.

Table 7:

Per-class performance metrics of the proposed HVT-CNN model

ClassPrecisionRecallF1-score
Healthy0.940.950.95
Anthracnose0.910.900.90
Verticillium0.920.910.91

[i] HVT-CNN, hybrid vision transformers and convoluted neural networks.

Figure 7:

ROC curves for multi-class avocado leaf disease classification. AUC, area under the curve; ROC, Receiver Operating Characteristic.

Table 8:

Environmental factors and observed values for crop growth

Environmental factorThreshold valueObserved value
Ambient temperature (°C)20–3025
Humidity (%)50–7065
Soil moisture (%)30–5045
Figure 8:

Training and validation performance metrics.

Table 9:

HSTSF-AT for crop monitoring

DayCrop typeTemp (°C)Spectral change (%)Threshold temp (°C)Threshold spectral change (%)
1Avocado23.23.5255.0
526.16.5266.0
1030.012.1298.5
1532.215.4309.5

[i] HSTSF-AT, hybrid spectral thermal sensor fusion with adaptive thresholding.

Figure 9:

Comparison of proposed method with SVM and CNN. CNN, convolutional neural networks; SVM, support vector machine.

Language: English
Submitted on: Dec 31, 2025
Published on: Aug 30, 2026
Published by: International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2026 Kapil Vhatkar, Shweta Koparde, Sonali Kothari, Pooja Bagane, published by International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems
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