Smart farming is a new term that alludes to managing farms utilizing the Internet of Things (IoT), robots, drones, and artificial intelligence (AI) to raise the number and quality of goods while reducing the amount of human work involved.
Smart farming has helped present-day farmers through the following technologies and innovative solutions:
• Soil, water, light, humidity, and temperature management sensors.
• Customized software solutions for specific farmland varieties or diagnostic IoT platforms.
• Cellular, LoRa, and other types of connectivity are available.
• GPS and satellite for remote observations.
• Robotics, i.e., self-driving tractors, processing plants, and so forth.
• Data analytics includes standalone analytics, data pipelines for downstream applications, and more.
A smart farming system is beneficial for precision farming, which uses IoT-based concepts to offer more controlled and accurate solutions on a per square meter basis. Similarly, the application of IoT in precision livestock farming allows farmers to monitor the health and location of the animals in their cattle.
Smart greenhouses with IoT technology can control and monitor the climate according to specific crop requirements. It also stores data in a cloud-based platform, which can then be used for crop health assessment, planting, soil, and field analysis, and more.
Information can also be obtained through agricultural drones, which collect multispectral imagery to give insights on numerous metrics, such as plant counting and yield prediction, chlorophyll measurement, canopy cover mapping, field water pond mapping, plant height measurement, stockpile measuring, weed pressure mapping, drainage mapping, and more.
The adoption of a smart farming system in the agriculture sector can pave the way for a Third Green Revolution, leading towards a more sustainable and productive system of agricultural production.
