IoT-​based agriculture products

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 real-​time problems but also give an estimation of future parameters based on past data. The different IoT-​based agricultural products and their usages are tabulated in Table 8.4.

Serial number	Product name	Pictorial	Usage
1.	AllMETEO		Accurate weather measurement (several parameters)
2.	Pycno (pycno.co, 2019)		System control and continuous weather data monitoring (data visualization, integrated soil sensor)
3.	GreenIQ (Ben nassi, 2018)		Garden-​based smart sprinkler. Saves 50% water consumption
4.	CropX starter Kit (CropX Starter, 2019)		Uninterrupted soil temperature monitoring sensor with better accuracy features
5.	3D Crop Sensor Array (3D Crop Sensor, 2019)		Easily mountable and monitors carbon dioxide, humidity and temperature
6.	Arable Mark (arable.com, 2019)		Connects the global weather data under the respective field observations
7.	EC-​1 controller (Growlink.com, 2019)		Feedback-​based decision-​making environmental condition monitoring system
8.	Growlink (Growlink.com, 2019)		Single microcontroller–​based smart farming through IP network
9.	Smart element (smartelements.io)		Determines the wetness of a leaf
10.	Waspmote Plug		Reliable and accurate weather information

Apart from the agricultural products mentioned in Table 8.4 many more devices exist like SKY-​Lora that transfers the weather data to the connected sensor placed at a distance of 600 m through Wi-​Fi connection (get.pycno.co). Agriculture drones are more sophisticated for agriculture optimization, crop production improvement and crop monitoring through digital camera attached to the drone.