Smart Farming: The Future of Agriculture

Our parents and grandparents are from that era where tractors were considered to be an ultimate technology.

Agricultural industry depends on engineering technology as well as biological and physical sciences. In this digital era agricultural industry has been keen adopter of IoT.

As per Jan 2016 Machina research report the number of connected agricultural devices is expected to grow from 13 million at the end of 2014 to 225 million by 2024.

IoT Solution integrates various technologies such as sensors,telecommunication, RFID, agriculture machinery, food science, agricultural product supply chain management, animal and plant sciences which has an large impact on various industries apart from agriculture.

Technologies available for present day farmers:

1. Sensors technologies include soil scanning, temperature, humidity, and light management.
2. Specialized software solutions that target specific farm.
3. Communication technologies such as cellular communication.
4. Positioning technologies such as a GPS.
5. Autonomous tractors and processing facilities.
6. Data Analytics that includes fundamental decision making and prediction processes.

Provided with such tools, farmers can easily monitor whole field without even going to the field.

Farming Cycle Bases on IoT:

IoT is all about huge amount of data. To optimize the farming process, IoT devices installed on a farm should receive and process data in a repeated cycle that allows farmers to quickly react to emerging issues and changes in atmosphere conditions.

Observation: Sensors record the observational data from the plants, soil or surrounding ambient.

Diagnostics: The data recorded by sensors are then fed to the specific software with predefined rules that determines the exact condition of examined object.

Decisions: Once issues are reveled then software determines whether and which location specific treatment is required.

Action: At the end treatment need to be performed.

After all evaluation the cycle again starts from beginning.

IoT and Smart Farming:

IoT and smart farming helps farmers in the areas categorized below:

Availability of water:

Positioned sensors can create data points that will monitor things such as rainfall in particular area or water requirement for crops to help in implementing irrigation strategies and avoid excess water consumption.

Government regulations:

Enhance regulation means farmers must provides a unit of information from farm to fork and every step in between.

By doing so, farmers enables that different government import requirement are followed by particular procedures which makes product easily available to the market.

Profit maintenance:

Companies like Ola, google all are working on Silicon Valley’s self driving vehicle obsession technology.

But most of the people are still not aware about IoT and self driving had been already implemented to tractors. This will reduce need for labor which directly leads to cost savings for the farmers.

As we all expecting more and more from farmers, implementing IoT Technology for smart farming is the possible way they’ll able to be succeed and earn more profit.

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