Applications of Internet of Things(IoT) in Agriculture: The Need and Implementation

Abstract

Humans are motivated to improve agricultural yields by implementing new technologies due to the world's growing population. Precision agriculture, which is expected to raise crops considerably, could be achieved via the Internet of Things (IoT). However, a significant investment in IoT systems for agriculture and farmers who are not computer aware make the large-scale implementation of IoT systems in agriculture problematic. As a result, it is advocated that the focus on the deployment of agriculture IoT systems be widened to include the entire life cycle of agriproducts. While adopting agricultural IoT systems, energy factor must be in consideration. Farmers' interest in IoT technologies will rise significantly if green IoT systems are used throughout the agri-product life cycle. Regarding IoT-based agricultural network technologies, several aspects, including network architecture and layers, network topologies, and network protocols, have been investigated. This research investigates the ways in which Internet of Things (IoT)-based agricultural systems may be combined with other important technologies, such as cloud computing, large amounts of data storage, and analytics. This study also discovers security issues in IoT agriculture. There have also been a few examples of successful IoT-based agriculture rules and policies that various countries have implemented. However, there are still many unanswered questions about IoT agriculture research.