Abstract
To reach the goal of sustainable agriculture, smart farming is taking advantage of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm. These smart farms are designed to be run by interconnected devices and vehicles. Some enormous potentials can be achieved by the integration of different IoT technologies to achieve automated operations with minimum supervision. This paper outlines some major applications of IoT and UAV in smart farming, explores the communication technologies, network functionalities and connectivity requirements for Smart farming. The connectivity limitations of smart agriculture and it’s solutions are analysed with two case studies. In case study-1, we propose and evaluate meshed Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) gateways to address connectivity limitations of Smart Farming. While in case study-2, we explore satellite communication systems to provide connectivity to smart farms in remote areas of Australia. Finally, we conclude the paper by identifying future research challenges on this topic and outlining directions to address those challenges.
Highlights
IntroductionThe goal of sustainable farming is to increase agricultural yield to meet the food demand of 10 billion people by 2050, as reported by World Resources Institutes (WRI) in
The goal of sustainable farming is to increase agricultural yield to meet the food demand of 10 billion people by 2050, as reported by World Resources Institutes (WRI) in2018 [1] and smart farming is the inevitable approach to reach this goal
Classifying Standards based on Communication Distance: For short-range applications, IEEE 802.15.4-based protocols are the preferred choice [11], which are intended for Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWANs)
Summary
The goal of sustainable farming is to increase agricultural yield to meet the food demand of 10 billion people by 2050, as reported by World Resources Institutes (WRI) in. UAV and IoT based technologies facilitate adequate use of resources such as water, pesticides or agro-chemicals These smart technologies have proven to increase the quality of crop yield [4] and reduce environmental footprint from agricultural sector [2]. The applications UAVs are expanded to many areas of agriculture, including insecticide and fertilizer prospecting and spraying, seed planting, weed recognition, fertility assessment, mapping, and crop forecasting. These recent advancements of IoT and UAV based smart farming are helping the world to reach the goals of “The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, where the United Nation (UN) and international community set a target to eliminate Hunger by.
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