Top Benefits of IOT in Agriculture
Internet of Things (IoT) is a pervasive technology that interacts with entities across various industries. Agriculture is one such industry. The Earth's burgeoning population has necessitated that food production and farming become increasingly productive by producing more output. The archaic practices of manually experimenting, viability assessment through the brute force method and similar approaches are ineffective. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation has speculated that our population will need approximately 70% more food in 2050 than in 2006. There will be a need to innovate agricultural practices to search for solutions for the industry and individual farmers' existing problems. Modern technology such as the Internet of Things is estimated to impact the farm sector similarly to the first Green Revolution in India. The transition can be understood as a move from 'agri-culture' to 'agri-tech'. This transition ensures that everyone in our growing p...