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and advanced-analytics capabilities on the one hand, and robotics—aerial imagery,
sensors, sophisticated local weather forecasts—on the other” [44].
1.5.4 Smart Farming
In order to optimize the difficult and complex task of farming system, the application
of information technologies and devices such as sensors, receivers, hubs and wireless
computing is known as smart farming [41].
The information can be data regarding condition of soil and plants, graphs of
the terrain, readings of the climate, weather, statistics of resource usage, use of
manpower, funding, etc., can be taken up by the Smart Farmers by use of hand-held
devices such as smart phones or sometimes tablets. A farmer armed by the IoT tools
will get all the information needed to make informed decisions based on statistical
data prepared by smart phenomenon, rather than just anticipation.
1.5.5 Digital Farming
The idea of digital farming lies in extracting and mining value from data. The concept
of actionable intelligence and semantic added value is attached with the data which
is much more than mere availability of data.
Digital farming is amalgamation of both concepts—precision farming and smart
farming [42].
2 IoT and Its Potential for Agriculture
2.1 IoT Functional Blocks
The most acceptable definition of IoT given by Smith says that a dynamic global
network infrastructure with self-configuring capabilities based on standard and interoperable communication protocols where physical and virtual “things” have identities, physical attributes, and virtual personalities and use intelligent interfaces, and
are seamlessly integrated into the information network, often communicate data
associated with users and their environments [45].
An IoT system consists of many functional blocks to provide for sensing, identification, actuation, communication, and management. Figure 1 presents these
functional blocks as described below.
• Device: The devices in IoT serve to provide sensing, manifestation, control, monitoring and practical implementation activities. They can exchange data with peer
devices and applications, or collect data from devices and process the data either
locally or with centralized servers even, cloud back-ends.
G. K. Shankhdhar et al.
and advanced-analytics capabilities on the one hand, and robotics—aerial imagery,
sensors, sophisticated local weather forecasts—on the other” [44].
1.5.4 Smart Farming
In order to optimize the difficult and complex task of farming system, the application
of information technologies and devices such as sensors, receivers, hubs and wireless
computing is known as smart farming [41].
The information can be data regarding condition of soil and plants, graphs of
the terrain, readings of the climate, weather, statistics of resource usage, use of
manpower, funding, etc., can be taken up by the Smart Farmers by use of hand-held
devices such as smart phones or sometimes tablets. A farmer armed by the IoT tools
will get all the information needed to make informed decisions based on statistical
data prepared by smart phenomenon, rather than just anticipation.
1.5.5 Digital Farming
The idea of digital farming lies in extracting and mining value from data. The concept
of actionable intelligence and semantic added value is attached with the data which
is much more than mere availability of data.
Digital farming is amalgamation of both concepts—precision farming and smart
farming [42].
2 IoT and Its Potential for Agriculture
2.1 IoT Functional Blocks
The most acceptable definition of IoT given by Smith says that a dynamic global
network infrastructure with self-configuring capabilities based on standard and interoperable communication protocols where physical and virtual “things” have identities, physical attributes, and virtual personalities and use intelligent interfaces, and
are seamlessly integrated into the information network, often communicate data
associated with users and their environments [45].
An IoT system consists of many functional blocks to provide for sensing, identification, actuation, communication, and management. Figure 1 presents these
functional blocks as described below.
• Device: The devices in IoT serve to provide sensing, manifestation, control, monitoring and practical implementation activities. They can exchange data with peer
devices and applications, or collect data from devices and process the data either
locally or with centralized servers even, cloud back-ends.