Month: December 2022

Precision farming includes the farm management (adopting new techniques for improving the productivity using farm management system), which plays the main role in planning, making the decisions, processing to achieve the attributes of smart farming. It also includes micro-​controllers, grain storage management modules and WSNs. The farms that are far away from the natural resources… Continue reading Precision farming

The IoT technology plays a vital role in agriculture farming. The country’s economy is dependent on agriculture (Abellanosa & Pava, 1987). Sustainability in agriculture signifies the agricultural resource management to meet the human requirements while conserving the natural resources and environmental quality. There are several issues in current farming practices like excessive use of fertilizers… Continue reading Applications of IoT in sustainable farming

The global industries and individuals are looking to set up a stable foundation for smart farming and IoT applications to make them less vulnerable to cyber and security threats.

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… Continue reading Privacy and security issues in smart farming

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… Continue reading IoT-​based agriculture products

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.… Continue reading Smart dairy farming

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.… Continue reading Agriculture-​based smartphone applications

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.… Continue reading IoT smart farming policies in different countries

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… Continue reading Introduction to smart farming