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IoT Technologies in Agricultural Environment: A Survey

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Agriculture functions as an indispensable act in the world by meeting one of the basic needs of an individual named food, in spite of the fact that the assets are being reduced day by day and also various other problems arise irrespective of biases. In this scenario, unlike many technologies, when every other way fails to sense the routine of a crop, automation takes place by connecting to the invincible storages like cloud and streamlining the process by figuring its hardware and implementing user-friendly internet platform. IoT has set a benchmark in the technologies and has become a backbone to agriculture. This advancement in technology helps in farming automation, which helps in shaping a farmer’s workspace, ensuring them with device management, connectivity management, and productivity as a result along with remote management. This paper gives an insight on introduction to IoT, agriculture IoT, emerging wireless technologies of IoT, architectures and applications of IoT.

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Lova Raju, K., Vijayaraghavan, V. IoT Technologies in Agricultural Environment: A Survey. Wireless Pers Commun 113, 2415–2446 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-020-07334-x

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