Smart Agriculture and IoT Technology

This paper firstly describes the main applications of Internet of Things (IoT) in modern agriculture and achievements made on the basis of these technologies. It introduces the role of IoT in modern agricultural practices such as vertical farming (VF), hydroponics and phenotyping. Then, it analyzes the potential of wireless sensors and IoT in agriculture, and incoming challenges when integrating this technology with traditional agriculture. In addition, it lists the sensors that can be used in specific agricultural applications, and the main current and future agricultural application scenarios and platforms based on IoT. It also reviews the relevant research being carried out by major technology companies at home and abroad. It is intended to help researchers and agricultural engineers to implement the technology based on the IoT and realize the construction of smart parks.