Author: Haroon Khalil
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IoT-based crop monitoring
Connecting different types of devices together to form a huge network is the main goal of IoT. Three aspects can be accomplished through IoT: automation, communication and cost-effectiveness. IoT emancipates people from different farming activities; thus, it helps in saving their time and make them more productive. Environment monitoring provides data about air, temperature, condition…
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Internet of things in agriculture
The ultimate aim of technology-based agriculture is to cultivate in a smart manner, produce the farm with less wastage and deliver the produce to end-user at reasonable price and quality. Nearly 50% of the farm produce could not reach the consumer due to many reasons like wastage, transportation cost, climatic conditions, lack of direct marketing etc.…
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Fundamental characteristics of IoT
The information collected by IoT devices undergoes a five-phase life cycle. Create phase: Different sensors and devices collect the information from the physical world. Communicate phase: The collected data are sent through the network to the desired destination. Conglobation or aggregate phase: The data are summed up by the devices. Evaluation or analyze phase: The…
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Introduction to Internet of Things (IoT)
Computing and communication have been revolutionized with the invention of Internet of Things (IoT). This term was coined by Kevin Ashton from Proctor & Gamble Consumer Company in the year 1999. Initially it was confined to manufacturing and business only, and also known as machine to machine (M2M). It uses the internet and connects with…
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Challenges
There are several challenges with use of IoT in agriculture:
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IoT-based agriculture application
The technology plays a vital role in agriculture. IoT-based agriculture is shown in Figure 7.4, having different layers from physical layer to user-experience layer. This system performs acquisition of data, statistical analysis, storage and then decision-making on available data. Developments in sensor technology and other electronic devices reduced the costs and have added manifold advantages to…
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Benefits of IoT in agriculture
The role of IoT in agriculture as discussed in several literature reviews is as follows: Agriculturists take advantage of software and hardware resources and large amounts of data in rural, semi-rural and urban zones. Decision based on real-time data are useful in minimizing costs and several inputs and can gauge the qualitative production of food.…
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Internet of Things
The term “Internet of Things” comprises the technology developed in 1999. After that IoT produced a lot of interest in various fields. It is expected that the number of things which are connected to IoT will grow from 20 billion in 2015 to an estimated 200 billion by 2020. In real life, things are connected…
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IoT for agriculture
This section elaborates the role of IoT in agriculture and the efforts of related research and its application of IoT technologies. The critical survey is used to guide the use of such new ideas in urban agriculture and in precision agriculture.
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Innovative research in agriculture
Due to the new state of shrinking water levels, rivers and tanks are drying up and there is an urgent requirement of proper utilization of water. Crops can be supervised by placing proper sensors at right locations. The critical investigation survey in the area of agricultural shows that the income from agriculture is decreasing day…