Abstract
Internet of Things (IoT) technology has been identified as one of the emerging technologies in information technology (IT), which is widely used in all walks of life in the world. The key technologies of IoT technology, such as radio frequency identification (RFID), wireless sensor network (WSN), sensors and global positioning system (GPS), had been widely used in farmland and greenhouse management, environmental monitoring, cold chain monitoring and tracking, and traceability, etc. As advancements in science and technology, IoT technology has been widely applied in agricultural products quality and safety, which brought a number of potential benefits for detecting agricultural products easier and automatically, improving the efficiency and speed of operations, decreasing the labor cost, promoting the agricultural products quality and safety. This paper intended to introduce the concept of IoT technology, the key technologies used at present and review the recent applications of IoT technology in monitoring agricultural products quality and safety in the whole industry chain, such as production, processing, circulation, sales and traceability. Challenges and trends of agricultural products quality and safety in the future were also discussed. Keywords: IoT, agricultural products, quality and safety, RFID, WSN, sensors, GPS DOI: 10.25165/j.ijabe.20181105.3092 Citation: Ping H, Wang J H, Ma Z H, Du Y F. Mini-review of application of IoT technology in monitoring agricultural products quality and safety. Int J Agric & Biol Eng, 2018; 11(5): 35–45.
Highlights
Concerns of agricultural products safety have grown steadily during the past decades
Internet of Things (IoT) technology has been applied in various areas, but less adoption in monitoring quality and safety of agricultural products
Through review on the key technologies of IoT, and the applications in monitoring agricultural products quality and safety from production, processing, circulation, sales of the whole supply chain and traceability, it showed that consumers can acquire agricultural products information for risk management and traceability, and producers can get high quality and yield products with minimum input through precision agriculture based on IoT technology
Summary
Concerns of agricultural products safety have grown steadily during the past decades. Internet of things (IoT) technology will bring a new revolution of world information industry after the computer, internet and mobile communication network, which break the traditional ideas and open a new technical field. It is composed of three dimensions concluding information items, independent networks and intelligent applications. The objective of this paper was to review the recent applications of IoT in monitoring agricultural products quality and safety in production, processing, circulation, sales and traceability. It had discussed the current challenges and trends in the future
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