MAN5902 Business Systems Analysis: IoT Impact on Agriculture Industry

This report focuses on the impact of IoT smart technologies and IT solutions on agricultural businesses, emphasizing the need for change management. It highlights the challenges and opportunities associated with IoT in areas like greenhouse automation, crop management, and cattle monitoring. The research methodology includes peer-reviewed articles and grey literature. The report discusses the benefits and limitations of IT technologies, including the use of sensors, drones, and data analytics. It also addresses the challenges of risk mitigation, investment costs, and the need for professional development. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of understanding the impact of IoT on the agricultural industry.

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Abstract
The notable objective of this paper is to focus on the impact of IoT smart technologies and other
IT solutions such as Information Systems. The paper gave have importance to the change
management process required. The paper will highlight the challenges and opportunities of the
chosen technology which are the IoT smart technologies and IT solutions in the agriculture
industry. The advantages and disadvantages are well presented in the paper and it will be very
much reliable as peer-reviewed articles were considered in the data gathering procedure. We
move to the table of content.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Research approach and methodology..............................................................................................3
Description of the significant trend.................................................................................................3
Challenges........................................................................................................................................7
Opportunity......................................................................................................................................8
Considerations.................................................................................................................................8
Impact of the trend on business analysis practice............................................................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
Reference.......................................................................................................................................12

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Introduction
The foremost determination of this paper is to focus on the use of smart technologies and
IT solutions in cultural businesses. The agricultural business systems were the need of an
advanced system which will be very much useful in optimizing their business process which can
help them improve their profitability (Baranwal & Pateriya, 2016). The analysis of the business
data and the business situations are none done in a more accurate manner these days with the
help of advanced IoT based device such as the systems which helps in monitoring the climatic
conditions, greenhouse automation, crop management, cattle monitoring and the end to end
management systems. Each of these systems can be used under different circumstances in the
agricultural field (Muangprathub et al., 2019). The existing agricultural plans have to be
modified, in order to yield better quality products, the changes have to be done in such a way so
that there are no bigger risks associated with it. The following unit of the paper will present the
data gathering procedure.

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Figure 1: Change the world with IT
(Source: Cao et al., 2016)
Research approach and methodology
The effectiveness of this paper will be maintained by the reliable data collection
producer, Peer reviewed and scholarly resources are used from Google scholar for this paper.
The grey literatures which was also considered while writing this paper. The other sources which
were considered in this paper are the competitive papers which are used in the digital
investigations. The BABOK guide will be also considered to understand the agricultural
conditions which are requirement during the change management. The next segment of the paper
will discuss the significance of IoT based services.

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Description of the significant trend
As discussed by Baranwal & Pateriya, (2016), the latest progresses in IT industry have
led to the evolution of advanced sensory devices which are increasingly used in the agricultural
fields. The researcher of the paper focussed on both the challenges and the benefits of the
sensory IoT based devices. The researcher of this paper also focused on the different categories
of management technique which can be applied in the agricultural fields such as greenhouse
automation management system, crop management, cattle monitoring system and the farm
management system. The challenges of the IT technologies in terms of the Information systems,
management of those systems use of the IoT sensors can be also understood from this paper such
as the need for maintaining IT experts for adverse networking conditions. The crops which are
there in the field can be also managed by the surveillance technologies of the IoT based systems
(Ray, 2017). The use of the satellites with the expert IT professional can be also determined in
this paper.

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Figure 2: Change the world with IT
(Source: Stočes et al., 2016)
The latitude, longitude, and altitude of the GPS satellites can be also managed by the
farmers of the agricultural fields. The researcher stated that the use of the high technology can be
very much important for the farmers in order to protect their crops both from the harsh
environmental conditions such as heavy rains or snowfall and also from the attacks of other
animals and birds of the fields. The researcher stated that the IoT based drones are also very
much useful for the ecting the crops. The location sensors, optical sensors and, the
electrochemical sensors are very much useful used in the paddy fields as it helps in precision
agriculture. The properties of the soil can be tested in the first place with the application of the
optical sensors (Elijah et al., 2018). The frequency of light needed for specific crops such as

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wheat and maize ad cab be calculated with the help of the optical sensors. The composition of
the soli can be also maintained and managed with the help of the IoT optical sensors, the
business processes of the crops can be also maintained using the IoT sensors. The researcher
stated that airflow sensors can be also very much beneficial to manage the soil properties
considering the compaction of the soil, structure of the soil, category of the soil, moisture level
of the soil (Petkovics, Petkovic & Petkovics, 2017). The recent developments in the IT industry
have resulted in the growth of many new technologies which are increasingly used in the
agricultural industry such as the Honeywell force sensors. The main advantage of the paper is
that it states all the advantages as well as the limitations of IT technologies which are used in the
agricultural sectors. The impact and contribution of the sensory technologies and the Information
systems which are used in the business fields are presented in a detailed manner in this paper.
As mentioned by Sánchez-de-Rivera et al. (2017), there are different categories of
monitoring and mapping techniques which are used in the agricultural fields. The total yield in a
geographical area can be measured using the yield monitoring system. The researcher of the
paper focuses on the improved harvesting vehicles and equipment. The researcher sated that
yield mapping technique can be also used by the farmers to control the GPS sensors. The
researcher stated that variable rate fertilizer application tools are also very much used by the
farmers (Dawson, Walker & Cleveland, 2019). Weed mapping is very much used to overlap the
yield maps. The salinity meters can be also very much helpful can be very much used for
maintaining the salinity of the soil. Precision mapping can be very much useful for the cultural
fields. The smartphone tools and pinpoint locations of the technologies are maintained by the IT
experts which have to be hired by the management team of the organization. The researcher of
the paper emphases on the application of gyroscope and accelerometer in the agricultural

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industry. The researcher helps the readers of this article to have a detailed idea about the use of
the agricultural drones which are used for monitoring the crops from the rice and the wheat
fields. The increase in the yield of crops after using the IoT based system can be also determined
from this paper. The limitations and the changes of the use if the IoT sensors and the other IT
innovations are stated in the paper in a descriptive manner (Channe, Kothari & Kadam, 2015).
The researcher stated that huge investments are required by the shareholders of the business
which is huge issue in the agricultural field as there are lots of other categories of cost associated
with the agricultural fields. The automation of the connected devices is very much useful for
improving the business sales for the farmers. There are lots of other technologies which can be
integrated with the technologies which are now being used in the agricultural fields. Thus this
paper highlights both the welfares and restrictions of the use of the IT technologies in the
agriculture industry.
Figure 3: Agricultural Drones
(Source: Tomovic et al., 2017)

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According to Cao et al. (2016), change management is a very important business prospect
from the agricultural point of view. The existing technologies which are used in most of the
agricultural field may be replaced by the new and advanced technologies such as the big data
technologies. The structured and unstructured data of the agricultural field can be maintained by
the big data technologies. The IT solutions which are used in the fields must be replaced with the
help of specific IT governance plan which has to be created for every new technology
differently. The researcher stated that the application of the Climate smart agricultural in the
agricultural fields also he3lps in improving the quality of products which are obtained from the
agricultural fields. The vision and strategy of the primary shareholders can be very important to
bring the change management in the agricultural fields. The processing and the distribution of
the crops can be also improved using the IT advancements (Mekala & Viswanathan, 2017). The
natural resources which are in the agricultural field can be substitute by Co-operative Extension
System can be extensively used in the agricultural fields which might help the people residing
near the field to change their way of life as their irrational way of living may have an impact on
the soil quality of the agricultural field as well.

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Figure 4: Agricultural Drones
(Source: Tomovic et al., 2017)
The researcher of the paper highlight most of the probable risks associated with the
change such as the resistance to change, the researcher also highlighted the challenges of the use
of the technologies such as their compatibility issues with the existing legacy system. The
researcher said that the Information Systems can be very much useful to maintain and evaluate
the performance of each of the stakeholders of this industry such as the external stakeholders
such as the providers of the raw materials and the internal stakeholders such as the IT experts
which has to maintained by the shareholders of the agricultural field to control and monitor the
IT technologies used in the working environment (Ruan et al., 2019). The paper has numerous
benefits and limitations which are very much important to understand the effectiveness and the
impact of using the based devices and the IT services in the agricultural industry. The paper is

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very much useful to understand the impact of Internet of Things in agricultural industry. The
paper moves on to challenges unit of the paper.
Challenges
There numerous categories of challenges associated with the use of the IT technologies in
the agricultural fields. The prime challenge is the need of the risk mitigation plan associated with
each of the technologies, the change management of the devices can be very done in an efficient
way with the help of effective organizational leaders and IT experts. The huge investments
which are required by the shareholders of this organization is also an important challenges of the
use of the latest technologies. The professional development of each of the stakeholders
associated with the agricultural industry as the providers of the raw materials, provider of the
technologies which are used in the agricultural fields, food distributors, farmers, NGO’s and
environmental scientists and the animal welfare ground are needed for the development of
industry as a whole (Pan et al., 2016). A risk response team can be very much useful for the deal
with all the risks associated with the IT technologies. There are few governmental protocols
which are applicable for the use of the IT industries in the agricultural industries; it is a very
important challenge for the shareholders of the firms. The incorporation of the new technologies
will lead to the increase in productivity which can be have a negative impact in terms of the
decreasing quality of products (Martínez et al., 2016). Even after maintaining the IT innovations
every agricultural firm must be having a manual or an automated Quality Assessment division
which will be dedicatedly looking after the quality of products offered by the firm. Opportunity
is the next topic of discussion in this paper.