The role of IoT in agriculture as discussed in several literature reviews is as follows: Agriculturists take advantage of software and hardware resources and large amounts of data in rural, semi-rural and urban zones. Decision based on real-time data are useful in minimizing costs and several inputs and can gauge the qualitative production of food. Direct relationship with the consumer can be established by application of a suitable business model. Technology-driven crop monitoring simply brings down the costs as well as the theft of machinery used in farming. Sensors are used in automatic irrigation systems to monitor humidity, temperature and soil moisture values for further processing and analysis. Decision support systems scrutinize a huge amount of data to overall improve the productivity and enhance the operational efficiency. Hence, technology-driven agriculture increases the productivity by decreasing the labor-intensive manpower [10], and research suggests that it also increases the yield as well as farmers’ welfare and financial conditions. Complete automation in irrigation system helps in optimization of water consumption in agriculture [1], as wireless sensor networks are used to acquire data about several factors like humidity, moisture and temperature from several locations of the field.
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