Silvestri et al. (2025) Smart Irrigation with Fuzzy Decision Support Systems in Trentino Vineyards

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Identification

• Journal: Sensors
• Year: 2025
• Date: 2025-11-25
• Authors: R. Silvestri, Massimo Vecchio, Miguel Pincheira, Fabio Antonelli
• DOI: 10.3390/s25237188

Research Groups

Not specified in the abstract.

Short Summary

This study comparatively evaluates two fuzzy-logic-based irrigation decision support systems for vineyard management, revealing distinct strengths and trade-offs between water conservation and crop stress mitigation.

Objective

• To conduct a comparative field-based evaluation of two fuzzy-logic-based irrigation decision support systems (Mamdani-type and Takagi-Sugeno) for vineyard management, assessing their water use efficiency, soil moisture control, and robustness to environmental variability.

Study Configuration

• Spatial Scale: Field-based (vineyard management), with the Takagi-Sugeno system designed for ultra-local data.
• Temporal Scale: Short-term forecasting, utilizing historical field data.

Methodology and Data

• Models used: Mamdani-type fuzzy logic controller (expert-defined rules), Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy logic system (automated learning).
• Data sources: Soil moisture sensing, short-term forecasting, weather predictions, ultra-local historical field data. Evaluation combined counterfactual simulations with bootstrap-based statistical analysis.

Main Results

• The comparison highlighted distinct strengths of the two fuzzy-logic approaches.
• It revealed trade-offs between water conservation and crop stress mitigation.

Contributions

• Provides practical insights for the design and deployment of intelligent irrigation management solutions.
• Offers a comparative field-based evaluation of two distinct fuzzy-logic irrigation decision support systems.

Funding

Not specified in the abstract.

Citation

@article{Silvestri2025Smart,
  author = {Silvestri, R. and Vecchio, Massimo and Pincheira, Miguel and Antonelli, Fabio},
  title = {Smart Irrigation with Fuzzy Decision Support Systems in Trentino Vineyards},
  journal = {Sensors},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.3390/s25237188},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.3390/s25237188}
}