Applicability of IoT for Smart Agriculture: Challenges & Future Research Direction

The ever-increasing population gave rise towards shift from traditional farming to modern farming methods. Limited availability of land, diminishing natural resources, unpredictable weather conditions resulting in food scarcity which is major concern which must be addressed. In order to increase the productivity and efficiency of agricultural land, Internet of things (IoT) offers many features in smart farming like monitoring of water, farm, soil, management of irrigation facilities, detection of pests and diseases, asset tracking, greenhouse farming, remotely control and diagnosis of farming related equipment etc. This paper presents different applications of IoT in smart agriculture and how productivity has increased which results in adding economic growth to the country using advanced technologies in agriculture industry.