ITECH 5500: An Overview of IoT and Data Analytics in Agriculture

This report provides an overview and critical analysis of a research paper titled "An Overview of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Data Analytics in Agriculture: Benefits and Challenges." The paper explores the application of IoT in agriculture, highlighting its benefits such as community farming and safety control, while also addressing challenges like security and business issues. The analysis covers the main ideas presented, including the use of wireless sensor networks and the four key components of IoT technology: IoT devices, communication techniques, data processing, and data storage. The report critically evaluates the research methods employed, including research design, strategies, and data collection techniques. Furthermore, it examines the communication factors crucial for developing an effective IoT system and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of this technology, concluding with an assessment of the paper's strengths and weaknesses, particularly the lack of information on improving IoT security.

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INTRODUCTION
 The title of this study is “An Overview of the
Internet of Things (IoT) and Data Analytics in
Agriculture: Benefits and Challenges” (Elijah,
Rahman, Orikumhi, Leow, & Hindia, 2018).
 It is completely based on the internet of thing
technology
 The aim of this paper is to analyse the
concept of IoT and their role in the field of
agriculture

MAIN IDEA
 According to the investigators, the term IoT
refers to the information technology which is
used for communication purpose.
 It has the ability to integrate physical devices
and connected with other systems by using
internet connectivity.
 The main idea described by the authors is IoT
can be used in sector agriculture (Al-Fuqaha,
Guizani, Mohammadi, Aledhari, & Ayyash,
2015).

MAIN IDEA
 Wireless sensors networks are more effective
techniques which can be used in IoT.
 There are main four components of the IoT
technology which are the following:
 IoT devices
 communication techniques
 data processing
 data storage (Botta, De Donato, Persico, &
Pescapé, 2016).

CRITICAL ANALYSIS
 This paper analysed the importance of IoT
technology in agriculture
 In the area of agriculture the internet of thing
control and manage the performance of
systems (Christidis, & Devetsikiotis, 2016).
 The research question of this research paper
is “what is the role of IoT and data analytic
technologies in agriculture and what are
benefits and challenges of IoT.”

CRITICAL ANALYSIS
 The researchers critically analysed this
research question and provided enough
information about internet of thing.
 According to the authors the communication
technology play a significant role in IoT
 Mainly wireless communication technologies
used in IoT devices for improving efficiency
of the system.

CRITICALLY ANALYSIS
 In this paper, the researchers used various
kinds of research methods such as:
 Research design
 Research strategies
 Qualitative and quantitative technique
 Data collection methods
 Secondary research process
 By using all these techniques the researchers
have improved efficiency of the paper

CRITICAL EVALUATION
 After analysing this paper it has been
evaluated the selection of communication
technology depends on topology.
 There are four kinds of topologies used in
agriculture for developing an effective IoT
system such as:
 Peer to peer
 Star
 Ring
 Mesh

CRITICAL EVALUATION
 From this paper it has been identified that security and
privacy both are very common problem occurred in IoT
technique.
 It has been evaluated that during development of IoT
system for agriculture the researcher should focus on
communicational factors such as:
 Distance
 data rate
 battery life
 security and resilience.
 There are many advantages of IoT technique such as:
 Community farming
 safety control and fraud prevention
 competitive benefits
 wealth creation and distribution

CRITICAL EVALUATION
 Disadvantages of IoT technology may involve:
 business issues
 more expensive
 technical issues like interference
 Security
 selection of technology and reliability issues
 Therefore, it has been found that the researcher
provided in-depth analysis about research topic
and critically evaluated the benefits and
challenges of IoT which are strengths of this paper.
 The main drawback of this paper is that the
researchers did not provide any information about
techniques to improve security of IoT.

CONCLUSION
 It has been concluded that the internet of
thing is an effective technology which can be
used in the field of agriculture
 In this study the authors shows technologies
used in IoT and explained role of IoT in
agriculture.
 In future the researcher will reduce
drawbacks of this study and will involve
methods for improving security of the IoT
technology

REFERENCES
 Elijah, O., Rahman, T. A., Orikumhi, I., Leow, C. Y., & Hindia,
M. N. (2018). An overview of Internet of things (IoT) and
data analytics in agriculture: Benefits and challenges. IEEE
Internet of Things Journal, 5(5), 3758-3773.
 Al-Fuqaha, A., Guizani, M., Mohammadi, M., Aledhari, M., &
Ayyash, M. (2015). Internet of things: A survey on enabling
technologies, protocols, and applications. IEEE
communications surveys & tutorials, 17(4), 2347-2376.
 Botta, A., De Donato, W., Persico, V., & Pescapé, A. (2016).
Integration of cloud computing and internet of things: a
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