Internet of Things in arable farming: Implementation, applications, challenges and potential
By Andrés Villa-Henriksen, G. Edwards, Liisa Pesonen, Ole Green, C. Sørensen. 2020
305 citations recorded by the source corpus.
The Internet of Things is allowing agriculture, here specifically arable farming, to become data-driven, leading to more timely and cost-effective production and management of farms, and at the same time reducing their environmental impact. This review is addressing an analytical survey of the current and potential application of Internet of Things in arable farming, where spatial data, highly varying environments, task diversity and mobile devices pose unique challenges to be overcome compared to other agricultural systems. The review contributes an overview of the state of the art of technologies deployed. It provides an outline of the current and potential applications, and discusses the challenges and possible solutions and implementations. Lastly, it presents some future directions for the Internet of Things in arable farming. Current issues such as smart phones, intelligent management of Wireless Sensor Networks, middleware platforms, integrated Farm Management Information Systems across the supply chain, or autonomous vehicles and robotics stand out because of their potential to lead arable farming to smart arable farming. During the implementation, different challenges are encountered, and here interoperability is a key major hurdle throughout all the layers in the architecture of an Internet of Things system, which can be addressed by shared standards and protocols. Challenges such as affordability, device power consumption, network latency, Big Data analysis, data privacy and security, among others, have been identified by the articles reviewed and are discussed in detail. Different solutions to all identified challenges are presented addressing technologies such as machine learning, middleware platforms, or intelligent data management.
Subfields: Food Science, Plant Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Current Progress and Future Prospects of Agriculture Technology: Gateway to Sustainable Agriculture (2021, background): “…for stakeholders and users to select and implement appropriate technology to improve Recently, a few studies reviewed the IoT-based articles focusing on implementation, application, challenges, potential, and future prospective of the IoT in smart farming and agro-industry [24–26]. crop production.”
- A Survey on Smart Agriculture: Development Modes, Technologies, and Security and Privacy Challenges (2021, background): “1) Sensors and actuators: Agricultural sensors are mainly used to collect both environmental conditions and crop growth information [39] and then transmit the data to the cloud [38].”