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ArticleScientific reports2026

AI-enabled smart farming framework for sustainable date palm cultivation in arid regions using machine learning and IoT integration.

Marran Al Qwaid, Md Tanjil Sarker, Sarowar Morshed Shawon, H T Zubair

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Marran Al QwaidDepartment of Computer Science, College of Computing and Information Technology, Shaqra University, Shaqra, 11961, Saudi Arabia.
Md Tanjil SarkerCentre for Electric Energy and High Voltage, CoE for Robotics and Sensing Technologies, Faculty of Artificial Intelligence and Engineering, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, 63100, Malaysia. tanjilbu@gmail.com.
Sarowar Morshed ShawonDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Science and Technology Chittagong, Chattogram, 4202, Bangladesh.
H T ZubairCenter for Fiber Networking and Communication, CoE for Intelligent Network, Faculty of Artificial Intelligence and Engineering, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, 63100, Malaysia. zubair@mmu.edu.my.

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Sustainable agriculture in arid regions faces critical challenges due to water scarcity, high temperatures, and inefficient traditional farming practices. This study presents an AI-enabled smart farming framework for optimizing date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) cultivation through the integration of Machine Learning (ML) and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. A structured multimodal dataset comprising biometric features palm height, trunk diameter, and leaf number, environmental parameters soil moisture, temperature, and humidity, and categorical attributes variety and health status was analyzed to classify palm health and support data-driven irrigation management. Four ML algorithms Random Forest (RF), Gradient Boosting Machine (GBM), Artificial Neural Network (ANN), and Support Vector Machine (SVM) were developed and optimized using grid search with five-fold cross-validation. Among them, the Random Forest model achieved the highest classification accuracy of 95.3%, demonstrating strong robustness for heterogeneous agricultural data. Feature importance analysis highlighted soil moisture, humidity, trunk diameter, and leaf number as key contributors to palm health prediction. The proposed AI-IoT framework enables real-time monitoring, predictive diagnostics, and automated decision support for sustainable water use and crop management, aligning with Saudi Vision 2030 objectives for technology-driven and resource-efficient agriculture.

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AgricultureArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningPhoeniceaeBoosting Machine Learning AlgorithmsIntelligent SystemsNeural Networks, ComputerRandom ForestSupport Vector MachineArtificial intelligenceDate palmIoTMachine learningPredictive analyticsSmart farmingSustainable agriculture

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