Role of Internet of Things (IoT) in Smart Farming: A Brief Survey

Presently there is huge improvement in technologies. Lots of tools and techniques are available in the agriculture sector. Internet of Things plays very important role to improve productivity, efficiency, global market. It also reduces human intervention, cost and time which are major factors in agriculture. The Internet of Things (IoT) can be defined as a system which interrelate computing devices, objects, machines (like mechanical and digital), living beings. The IoT components are provided with unique identifiers and have the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. So, in order to increase productivity, IoT works in synergy with agriculture to get smart farming. Role of IoT, different tools, hardware and software used in smart farming is discussed in this paper.