A Survey of LPWAN Technology in Agricultural Field

Huge number of poor people (around 70 percent) in India is living in rural areas. Crop yield is a high-risk activity by nature against the farmers. Different factors are providing an adverse impact on crop yield. Future developments in the agricultural field are only possible through the majority of the farmland are brought under monitoring systems. The main focus of this paper is to determine a Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) device with low-cost, low power and long-range communication for the smart agriculture sector. Comparison of basic LPWAN techniques used in the agriculture monitoring network for collecting the real-time agricultural field information is provided in this paper. The use of LPWAN technology will help the farmers for solving the major food security problems in India.