Category: Role of IoT in sustainable farming

In smart farming several sensor-​based technologies are adopted over cloud through smart applications. The data provided by the sensors have to be healthy and should be protected. So, the privacy issues must be considered for a faithful work environment.

Smart farming includes the smart devices that are connected to the servers through a network. Smart farming increases the flexibility of agricultural operations through customer integration (Kamilaris et al., 2016). From the numerous benefits of smart farming, there are some unavoidable risks. As smart farming is dependent on information systems for sustainable development, hackers and other…

IoT in agriculture has created a profound advancement in technology to enhance monitoring, automation and accurate solutions. To meet the challenges, requirements and global standards, entrepreneurs are making a path for modern agriculture methods. In this section, agricultural products are described to understand the importance of IoT in agriculture. These products not only solve the…

The dairy farming is milk production agriculture for long term which is an alternative food for human infants. Smart dairy farming includes three main areas: The automatic or robotic milking has existed in the industry since 1990s. Cow feeding with different techniques is shown in Table 8.3. Serial number Milking type Pictorial representation Efficiency (cows/hour) 1.…

Several domains in agriculture can be automatically monitored to enhance productivity of the agriculture with less human effort. The sensors-​based equipment that are connected to IoT can be operated using software-​based applications. These applications interact with the humans using GUI. These apps include the farm management, animal stock, weather report, goods availability and soil parameters.…

Many countries are trying to adopt advanced monitoring techniques facilitated through IoT. However, IoT opportunities are stopped by the governments of different countries as they are investing more on crop productivity improving methods. India: Agriculture is the backbone of India. IoT policies are focused on agriculture to strengthen the Indian economy all over the world.…

Recent research indicates that IoT has changed the majority of agriculture industries for a better future. With the extreme climatic changes and increase in population, there is a demand for more food to meet the requirements. The IoT-​based smart farming enables the farmers to apply the smart technologies to the fields so as to reduce…

The applications of IoT can be found in technology-​efficient artificially intelligent (smart) devices such as electronic gadgets (smart watches) in almost every area including smart cities and homes, transportation, industries, power sector, health and agriculture. The usage of IoT in terms of percentage in different sectors according to Google searches (valid till 2014) is shown in Figure…

Connecting different types of devices together to form a huge network is the main goal of IoT. Three aspects can be accomplished through IoT: automation, communication and cost-​effectiveness. IoT emancipates people from different farming activities; thus, it helps in saving their time and make them more productive. Environment monitoring provides data about air, temperature, condition…

The ultimate aim of technology-​based agriculture is to cultivate in a smart manner, produce the farm with less wastage and deliver the produce to end-​user at reasonable price and quality. Nearly 50% of the farm produce could not reach the consumer due to many reasons like wastage, transportation cost, climatic conditions, lack of direct marketing etc.…