The Internet of Things at the service of tomorrow’s agriculture

Abstract

Smart agriculture is an approach that helps those managing agricultural systems deal with technological changes in an efficient manner, aiming to provide the agriculture industry with the infrastructure to leverage advanced technologies - including big data, the cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT) - to track, monitor, automate and analyze operations.Thanks to new technologies and precisely the Internet of Things, the agricultural sector will have a radical change to improve efficiency, productivity, global market and reduce human intervention, time and costs. Smart agriculture and IoT-based agriculture are laying the foundation for a "third green revolution," which refers to the combined application of information and communication technologies. This paper focuses on role of IoT in agriculture and presents some devices such as precision equipment, IoT sensors and actuators, geo-positioning systems, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and robots that leads to smart agriculture.