Paper #3

A Review on Smart IoT Based Farming

Hira Farooq, Hafeez UR Rehman, Anam Javed, Mehnaz Shoukat and Sandra Dudley

Abstract: With the increase of world population, the availability of food to all inhabitants on globe is one of the significant challenges. These challenges need to be addressed by adopting innovative options to improve the soil capacity and the safety of environmental resources. The availability of real-time vital parameters related to farming such as moisture, temperature, weather, crops diseases and water management as well as predictive actions against the changes in parameters can provide great help to deal with these challenges. Internet of Things (IoT) is an evolving technology, has great potential to play and prevail its miraculous role in almost every field. IoT is a network of things that are capable of self-configuring network. The development of intelligent IoT based Smart farming is day by day getting its space in developed countries. It facilitates towards precision agriculture and turning the face of agriculture production. Subsequently, it is reducing spoilage of resources such as water, fertilizers, operating cost. The availability and development of cost effective smart miniaturized sensors, processors and communication technologies has made IoT based smart farming feasible. This paper aims to review most recent papers from year 2015 to 2020 in IoT based farming domain. The recent work is highlighted in terms of their scope, methodology and summarised in a table followed by discussion and analysis. The intention is to provide a platform for the future researchers to get a start towards a system with a single standard expert and complete autonomous assistive system.

Keywords: IoT; Smart Farming; Sensors; Cloud; Microcontroller; Machine Learning.