Developing a human-centric agricultural model in the IoT environment

The prevalent state of agriculture, especially in developing countries, is not efficient and organized enough to address the growing demand for food, a direct result of the increasing human population. Internet of things and cloud computing together have provided a promising opportunity to resolve the challenges posed by this increasing demand worldwide. By employing IoT and cloud services, and through precision farming tactics, the efficiency and quality of agricultural production, storage and transportation can be tremendously improved. In this paper, we present the architecture of a multilayered enabling platform for incorporating IoT technologies in the agricultural sector. This work makes important contributions by proposing a feasible human-centric IoT model for agriculture with special emphasis on developing nations.