IoT Based Smart Greenhouse Framework and Control Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture

In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has become one of the most familiar names creating a benchmark and scaling new heights. IoT an indeed future of the communication that has transformed the objects (things) of the real world into smarter devices. With the advent of IoT technology, this decade is witnessing a transformation from traditional agriculture approaches to the most advanced ones. In perspective to the current standing of IoT in agriculture, identification of the most prominent application of IoT-based smart farming i.e. greenhouse has been highlighted and presented a systematic analysis and investigated the high quality research work for the implementation of greenhouse farming. The primary objective of this study is to propose an IoT-based network framework for a sustainable greenhouse environment and implement control strategies for efficient resources management. A rigorous discussion on IoT-based greenhouse applications, sensors/devices, and communication protocols have been presented. Furthermore, this research also presents an inclusive review of IoT-based greenhouse sensors/devices and communication protocols. Moreover, we have also presented a rigorous discussion on smart greenhouse farming challenges and security issues as well as identified future research directions to overcome these challenges. This research has explained many aspects of the technologies involved in IoT-based greenhouse and proposed network architecture, topology, and platforms. In the end, research results have been summarized by developing an IoT-based greenhouse farm management taxonomy and attacks taxonomy.