Abstract
The agricultural sector is of great importance to fulfill food resources need of the country. Precision Agriculture (PA) with Internet of Things and Wireless Sensor Network is a transformation from traditional farming to smart farming. Wireless sensor networks and Internet of Things are considered as drivers to develop system which can change agriculture sector from manual to automatic. Advancement in the technology have pushed the growth of precision agriculture to very large extent despite of several challenges faced in this area. System for precision agriculture relies on hardware components mainly wireless sensors which act as a source for gathering of real time data. Depending upon the real time date retrieved by sensors automation in agriculture is done by adopting decision-based system. With Precision agriculture productivity is optimized by maintaining sustaniability as crop receives what is acutual requirement on the basis of new techniques and software platforms. This review article includes Inernet of Things (IoT), Wireless Sensors, Wireless communication and challenges faced in this area.
Highlights
In various economic surveys done in past five years it is indicated that adoption of advancement in technologies is required to make agriculture sector sustainable for small and marginal farmers
Precision agriculture is a way of farming which is done by considering all the elements related to soil moisture and temperature, environment details like temperature, humidity and rate of evaporation measured by technology-based devices
Most of the research articles in this field indicates that precision agriculture is about sustainability and decision support systems
Summary
India has 16% of world papulation but have 4% of world’s fresh water resources out of which 80% is used for agriculture [1]. Many states of India have their agriculture totally dependent on rainfall due to very less availability of freshwater This shortage of freshwater supply demands paradigm shift to productivity per unit of water. Present scenario demands novel technology for increasing the crop productivity, and a technology to reduce the water consumption for irrigation This is clearly indicating a transformation of traditional farming to Precision agriculture. Precision farming is a technique of farming that changes the use of pesticides and fertilizers to evaluate the variation in the growth conditions within the agriculture field. This way of practice is termed as Site Specific Management (SSM) [4]. This review paper is focused on Internet of things and various techniques used in this field to agriculture technology based
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