Collecting environmental information of crop growth and dynamically adjusting agricultural production has been proved an effective way to improve the total agricultural yield. Agricultural IoT technology, which integrates the information sensing equipment, communication network, and information processing systems, can support such an intelligent manner in the agricultural environment. Traditional agricultural IoT could meet the service demand of small-scale agricultural production scenarios to a certain extent. However, the emerging application scenario of the agricultural environment is becoming more and more complicated, and the data nodes of the underlying access to IoT backend system are increasing in large number, while the upper-layer applications are requiring high quality of data service. Hence, the traditional architecture-based (i.e., centralised cloud computing) IoT systems suffer from the problems such as small network coverage, data security issue, and limited power supply time while attempting to provide high-quality services at the edge of the network. Emerging edge computing offers the opportunity to solve these issues. This paper builds an intelligent IoT system for agricultural environment monitoring by integrating edge computing and artificial intelligence. We conducted an experiment to validate the proposed system considering the reliability and usability. The experimental results prove the system’s reliability (e.g., data packet loss rate is less than 0.1%). The proposed system achieves the concurrency of 500TPS and the average response time of 300 ms, which meet the practical requirements in agricultural environment monitoring.

Various kinds of mobile services allow integrating terminal customers as important coproducers into the whole retailer’s business processes. People have enjoyed increasing popularity in the past years since they allow saving costs and increasing satisfaction. However, in some retail settings, as the technology relies on retailers providing terminals, it does not yet fully utilize the possibilities provided by mobile service, which until recently have mostly served as shopping aids. Recommendation systems can provide accurate recommendation services to users, especially in the field of e-commerce. In this study, a mobile retail terminal, Kkbox, leverages deep learning-based recommendation and self-service technologies to provide an express and personalized self-checkout retail environment without the engagement of storekeepers and cashiers. An attention-based mechanism for product personalization recommendation model is adopted, and it models the intrinsic relationship between users’ historical interactions with products through a multilayer self-attentive network and then feeds the output of the multilayer self-attentive network into a GRU network with attention scores to model the evolution of users’ interests. We analyze the performance of the product recommendation module based on user data from multiple perspectives, such as purchase frequency, purchase time, and product category. In the comparison experiments with some traditional recommendation methods, the recommendation accuracy of the model used in this study achieves better results. Besides, it significantly reduces the labor cost and provides enough flexibility. The time performance of app users is independent of store rush. The time for a transaction is significantly lower for app users than the regular shoppers during peak periods. The Kkbox has been deployed in several communities in Taizhou, China, to provide fast and convenient mobile retail services to residents.