Internet of Things technology and prospects for its implementation in crop production
Abstract
Internet of Things technology and prospects for its implementation in crop production
Incoming article date: 22.01.2024Currently, crop production faces such problems as a decrease in soil quality, untimely detection of weeds, pests and diseases of cultivated crops, irrational use of fertilizers, pesticides, and water resources. This leads to an increase in production costs due to overspending of resources (fertilizers, pesticides, and water) and a shortage of crops due to inefficient decision-making in conditions of limited information, which causes the need for the introduction of innovative intellectual solutions in the cultivation of crops. Internet of Things (IoT) technologies have significant potential for a solution to the above problem. However, to date, these technologies have not been widely used, even in countries with a high level of information and communication technology development. The purpose is to identify the factors limiting the development of the Internet of Things in crop production and to determine ways to solve the identified problems. It is shown that the limiting factor in the development of the Internet of Things in crop production is the need to install a significant number of heterogeneous sensors, the lack of Internet and mobile communications in remote areas, as well as, in some cases, the problem of organizing effective data transfer from sensors to platforms for storage, processing, and analysis, or commands in the opposite direction to actuators. In crop production, an Internet of Things technology can be realized through the use of unmanned aerial vehicles as an IoT device and as communication technologies.
Keywords: Internet of Things, structure, informational management system, unmanned aerial vehicle, crop production