ITC560 IoT in Farming: Challenges, Solutions, and Report Overview

This report, titled "IoT in Farming," addresses the challenges and structure of implementing Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in agriculture. The report begins by identifying key challenges such as interoperability issues with diverse IoT devices, the need for domain-specific standards, scalability, usability in varied agricultural settings, and the limitations of IoT devices in harsh environments. It also highlights difficulties in establishing reliable wireless communication, energy-efficient technologies, and ensuring data security and privacy. The report then outlines its structure, including its purpose, scope, and the technologies involved. The structure includes sections dedicated to a literature review, annotated bibliography, research findings, recommendations, and conclusions, providing a comprehensive analysis of the topic. The report references several research papers that discuss the applications of IoT in farming and the benefits of smart farming solutions, such as improved crop performance through monitoring environmental conditions. The goal is to provide a detailed overview of the challenges, current research, and potential solutions for integrating IoT into modern farming practices.

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Milestone 2:
Introduction to the problems:
One of the major challenges that is faced during the process of implementing the IoT
in the farming domain is interoperability. Ensuring the Interoperability of the huge
heterogeneity of the IoT devices used by the devices and the data with the open IoT
architectures, platforms as well as the standards is a challenging factor (Kamilaris et al.,
2016). Another major challenge is the alignment of the horizontal technical IoT standards
with the domain-specific standards in the agriculture field.
Scaling up of the usage of the interoperable IoT technologies beyond the early
adopters especially by the simplification of the existing solutions and improving its
affordability so as to ensure the attractiveness and fitness for being used by majority of the
farmers and the food companies and due to this reason appropriate business model is needed
which would be suitable for the small companies along with including a systematic economic
analysis of the costs as well as the benefits (Ryu et al., 2015).
Another important challenge is faced during the process of ensuring broad usability in
the diversity of the agriculture domain. Besides this, the development of the IoT devices for
harsh environmental conditions and for the natural objects have limited the possibilities of
embedding the IoT devices with the agricultural fields (Rekha et al., 2017). This challenge is
mainly faced for those particular devices that are integrated with the recent technological
advances. A lot of progress has been made in the process of adaptation of the more mutual
technologies so as to meet the requirements of the agriculture domain.
Besides this establishing a reliable and stable wireless communication in the remote
area is also a major challenge and the major reason for this problem is the limited coverage

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and bandwidth. The development process of energy efficient technologies is also a
problematic process in the rural areas.
Security, privacy and data ownership is another challenge faced by the IoT devices
being implemented in the agriculture field (Bhattacharjee et al., 2017). Gathering of a
trustworthy solution is very tough work for solving the problems faced by the dynamic and
the complex network of the stakeholders.
Structure of the report:
Purpose: The major purpose of this paper is to analyze the impacts that the IoT is having
when they are implemented so as to make the process of farming easier. The paper is having
an aim of discussing the various IoT technologies that are used during the process of farming.
Scope: The scope mainly includes the analysis of the different challenges faced by the IoT
when they are used in farming. Besides this paper also discusses the previous works that have
been done regarding the IoT technology.
Technologies: The paper would be associated with using the technology Internet of Things
or the IoT in various farming activities.
Literature Review: This section discusses the various works that have been done with this
technology and to show how the IoT is being used in the various farming activities so as to
make the system more efficient and free of errors.
Annotated Bibliography: in this section, the major understandings of the literature review is
provided.
Research Findings: The major findings of the literature review are noted and amongst which
the most appropriate methodology is selected so as to make the system much efficient.

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Recommendations: Further recommendations are provided in this section which would be
used in order to avoid the various challenges faced during farming.
Conclusion: This section of the paper would summarize all the findings of the paper and
would also be providing an overview of each of the findings.

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References:
Bhattacharjee, A., Das, P., Basu, D., Roy, S., Ghosh, S., Saha, S., ... & Rana, T. K. (2017,
October). Smart farming using IOT. In Information Technology, Electronics and
Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON), 2017 8th IEEE Annual (pp. 278-
280). IEEE.
Kamilaris, A., Gao, F., Prenafeta-Boldú, F. X., & Ali, M. I. (2016, December). Agri-IoT: A
semantic framework for Internet of Things-enabled smart farming applications.
In Internet of Things (WF-IoT), 2016 IEEE 3rd World Forum on (pp. 442-447). IEEE.
Ryu, M., Yun, J., Miao, T., Ahn, I. Y., Choi, S. C., & Kim, J. (2015, November). Design and
implementation of a connected farm for smart farming system. In SENSORS, 2015
IEEE (pp. 1-4). IEEE.
Rekha, P., Rangan, V. P., Ramesh, M. V., & Nibi, K. V. (2017, October). High yield
groundnut agronomy: An IoT based precision farming framework. In Global
Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), 2017 IEEE (pp. 1-5). IEEE.