IoT Applications in Smart Agriculture: Issues and Challenges

The rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies created tsunamis almost in every industry across the world and particularly in agriculture. This massive changes are shaking the existing agriculture methods and creating new wave of opportunities. Due to the increase of world population by 30%, agriculture products will have a very high demand by 2050. Human resources for agriculture development is becoming less due to migration of young people to big cities and land use for agriculture cultivation is being used for rapid development. As a result, most of the agriculture activities need to be automated to fulfill the food demand. IoT and related technologies will be the potential solution to solve the above agricultural and food demand issues. This paper will explore the latest trends in IoT agriculture applications and highlight the issues and challenges particularly in network and open source software for smart agriculture.