No surprise, agriculture is preeminently one of the main development accelerators of the Internet of Things (IoT). Up-to-date technologies are indispensable for foodstuff manufacturers in supporting the rapidly growing population of our planet. In addition, IoT enables farmers to make the rural industry as much defensive and efficient as possible, as well as to generate new sources of income.

To put it into perspective, certain equipment allowing to monitor production stockrooms with the help of transmitters and sensors is instrumental in agricultural realm. It also enables farmers to set up and automate alerts each time discrepancies have been identified and/or fixed by transmitters.

A coherent methodology of farming provides an opportunity to meet vital needs of society, thus protecting the ground and other natural resources for the generations to come. IoT helps to build up smart farms where it is possible to exercise control over every single process for delivering better decisions on waste reduction and crops increase.

Known as a precision farming method, it incorporates data analysis for setting up an operation aiming to accelerate production of agricultural products based on the variability of managed cultivation as well as water and fertilizers consumption control.

Activities of a kind create comprehensive facilities for economy considering the sole fact that 60% of water meant for irrigation is wasted for no reason. Besides that, for the security of foodstuff, IoT creates unique data networks making it possible for consumers to control the evolution of nutrition products in all its stages “from farm to fork”.

Hence, the topicality of the IoT is intertwined with human interaction and nature on a large scale. Water quality and atmosphere changes monitoring, as well as solar radiation intensity meters are some of the most obvious domains to apply smart sensors. Immunity to weather impact and the ability to transmit data for hundreds and thousands of kilometers makes IoT indispensable when it comes to the agriculture modernization.

The IoT implementation in farming is in high gear throughout the world and various tools and decisions are being thoroughly worked out for different manufacturing branches, distribution and sales.