Internet-of-Things (IoT)-Based Smart Agriculture: Toward Making the Fields Talk

By Muhammad Ayaz, Mohammad Ammad-Uddin, Zubair Sharif, Ali Mansour, el-Hadi M. Aggoune. IEEE Access, 2019

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Despite the perception people may have regarding the agricultural process, the reality is that today’s agriculture industry is data-centered, precise, and smarter than ever. The rapid emergence of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) based technologies redesigned almost every industry including “smart agriculture” which moved the industry from statistical to quantitative approaches. Such revolutionary changes are shaking the existing agriculture methods and creating new opportunities along a range of challenges. This article highlights the potential of wireless sensors and IoT in agriculture, as well as the challenges expected to be faced when integrating this technology with the traditional farming practices. IoT devices and communication techniques associated with wireless sensors encountered in agriculture applications are analyzed in detail. What sensors are available for specific agriculture application, like soil preparation, crop status, irrigation, insect and pest detection are listed. How this technology helping the growers throughout the crop stages, from sowing until harvesting, packing and transportation is explained. Furthermore, the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for crop surveillance and other favorable applications such as optimizing crop yield is considered in this article. State-of-the-art IoT-based architectures and platforms used in agriculture are also highlighted wherever suitable. Finally, based on this thorough review, we identify current and future trends of IoT in agriculture and highlight potential research challenges.

Subfields: Food Science, Plant Science, Water Science and Technology

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Citations in the corpus

• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Smart Agriculture: Applications, Requirements, and Challenges (2020, background): “Smart agriculture is the buzzword nowadays which leverages the latest techniques of ICT to grow the food in a sustainable and clean manner [1].”
• Internet of Things for the Future of Smart Agriculture: A Comprehensive Survey of Emerging Technologies (2021, neutral): “[13] √ √ √ √ √ √ × × √ ◑ × √ √ × × × √ 2019”
• Current Progress and Future Prospects of Agriculture Technology: Gateway to Sustainable Agriculture (2021, background): “[5]”
• A Survey on Smart Agriculture: Development Modes, Technologies, and Security and Privacy Challenges (2021, background): “[14] IoT Various applications, services and sen-”
• From Industry 4.0 to Agriculture 4.0: Current Status, Enabling Technologies, and Research Challenges (2020, background): “As these agricultural applications of IoT were comprehensively reviewed in [12], [17], and [18], we herein discuss them at a general level, namely”
• Advances in Agriculture Robotics: A State-of-the-Art Review and Challenges Ahead (2021, neutral): “Another review work on IoT-based smart agriculture, which also describes the use of several electronic sensors in the improvement of agricultural control and monitoring tasks, is described in [3].”