A Survey on the Role of IoT in Agriculture for the Implementation of Smart Livestock Environment

Muhammad Shoaib Farooq,Saim Rasheed,Osama Omar Sohail,Adnan Abid

doi:10.1109/access.2022.3142848

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging paradigm that is transforming real-world things (objects) into smarter devices. IoT is applicable to a variety of application domains including healthcare, smart grid, and agriculture. This domain has started revolutionizing the agriculture industry by providing smart solutions for precision farming, greenhouse management, and livestock monitoring. This article aims to present a comprehensive survey on the role of IoT in the Livestock field by categorizing and synthesizing existing research work in this area. To this end, a detailed discussion has been provided on IoT network infrastructure, topologies and platforms employed for livestock management. In addition, a list of communication protocols and connections of IoT-based livestock systems with relevant technologies have also been explored. Furthermore, numerous IoT-based livestock monitoring, controlling, and tracking applications have been discussed. Apart from this, it also analyses distinct security issues in IoT-based livestock field and developed a collaborative security model to detect and minimize the security risk. Lastly, pertinent open research challenges in the domain of IoT-based livestock management have been presented with future research directions.

Highlights

Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging paradigm that connects the physical and digital worlds to solve real life problems
The growing impact of IoT in agriculture can be categorized into three subdomains i.e. Precision Farming, Greenhouse, and Livestock
The survey is organized as follows: Section II provides an overview of IoT-based livestock network infrastructure where we focus on the basic features of IoT-based networks and proposed IoT-Livestock network architecture, topology, and platform

Summary

INTRODUCTION

Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging paradigm that connects the physical and digital worlds to solve real life problems. The data persistent layer contains major informational records and privileges which are vital for IoT-based livestock farming whereas the network layer provides a connection with the physical layer through the multiple IoT communication protocols in order to sense the animal’s health-related parameters. On-site, generated data is processed and shared within the area of livestock farm, covering the five components i.e. applications, animals farm, smart sensors and devices, communication technologies, and gateway connection. 2) WHOLE HERD TRACKING The connectivity of IoT devices, sensors, and actuators aim to manage livestock by tracking their environmental impact, production/reproduction, and other health conditions [71] Maroto et al [72] proposed a low-cost whole herd tracking solution in which some animals have been tracked through wearable GPS collars and some animals are chased with lowcost Bluetooth tags. An IoT-based H2S sensor is used to measure the amount of hydrogen sulfide in the air [91]

IOT LIVESTOCK COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS AND RELEVANT TECHNOLOGIES

IOT ENABLED LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY TRENDS AND PRACTICES

IOT CHALLENGES AND SECURITY ISSUES

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CONCLUSION