Edge Inference on Battery-Powered Field Devices: A Technical Note on Duty Cycling and Model Size
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22665005Keywords:
Edge Inference on Battery-Powered Field Devices; Agro-informatics; Precision agriculture; Evidence synthesis; On-farm technologyAbstract
Edge Inference on Battery-Powered Field Devices has moved quickly from a research idea to something a working farm can
actually use, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the current evidence for edge inference on
battery-powered field devices, covering the methodological, practical, governance and cost angles, with an eye on where practice
has genuinely settled and where farms and advisors are still largely working it out for themselves. Selective, context-specific
adoption looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than either broad rollout or blanket avoidance.
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