'Internet of Things' may revolutionise the agricultural sector
Internet of things (IoT) broadly means “All objects,
which are connected to the web, will be enabled to share and process data
through their sensors and communication devices independently”. It is estimated
that by 2023, globally there may be 7 billion connected people, more than 30
million applications and embedded systems, more than 60 trillion GBs of data
and around 8 trillion revenue opportunity. The IoT market value is
expected to reach $11 trillion with security spending reaching $3.5 billion
shortly.
The history of IoT evolution started
with archaic mode of interaction between human and thing (people and things),
followed by interaction of machine and machine (things and things), leading to
interaction of people kicking off through proverbial internet (people and
people), resulting in multiple things getting connected on net (web of things)
and then finally the internet of humanity.
IoT in agriculture basically
involves the network wherein physical components in the sector is to be
connected with internet which may be the farms comprising trees, plants, and
animals, the tools and various objects in the sector. This enables information
exchange, monitoring and tracking, helping humans manage complex agricultural
sector more productively under certain protocols. For example, most of the
developed countries such as Germany, Japan and US has already moved ahead in
sensor technology and manufacturing processes. The net benefit of IoT
application is the increased agricultural
output, improved quality of agricultural products, reduced labour
costs coupled with increased agricultural income for farmers.
Intelligent agricultural machinery or IoT incorporates cluster
IoT, remote IoT and internal IoT. While cluster IoT focus on communication and
control between agricultural machinery operating in the same area, remote IoT
is between operation site and remote terminals and servers. The communication
between sensors, actuators and central processing unit in agricultural
machinery is referred to as Internal IoT.
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