IoT Technologies: Innovative Analysis of Smart Agriculture

Dear Colleagues,

At every stage across the entire agri-food supply chain, smart agricultural technologies are used, from the planting of seeds to the harvesting of crops, breeding of livestock and treating disease, transporting goods and managing commercial sales. Agricultural science and technology is rapidly becoming one of the world’s fastest growing and exciting markets. It is driven by global changes; a rising population, rapid development of emerging economies with Western lifestyle aspirations and growing geopolitical instability around shortages of land, water and energy. A technology revolution is also taking place. Breakthroughs in nutrition, genetics, informatics, satellite imaging, remote sensing, meteorology, precision farming and low-impact agriculture mean smart agricultural technologies has huge potential for development. Additionally, the scale of farming worldwide has changed significantly in recent years, with a move towards larger, intensive, profit-driven enterprises due to market pressures. This has resulted in demand for cost and labour reducing advanced farm automation technologies which can increase farm productivity. This step change has resulted in a demand for technologies and equipment which can reduce costs and labour inputs with concurrent increases in capacity to provide economies of scale. These economies of scale, however, will not yield profit unless quality is maintained, and this is a central focus of any new technologies developed for the sector. IoT technologies will contribute to address all of these challenges through improvements in yield and efficiency with a reduced environmental impact, including carbon reduction and improved biodiversity.

This Special Issue will focus on “IoT Technologies: Innovative Analysis of Smart Agriculture”.

We welcome novel research, reviews and opinion pieces covering all related topics including IoT in diary and livestock, IoT in precision agriculture, IoT in bioeconomy, management solutions, modelling, case-studies from the field, and policy positions. 

Prof. Dr. Joseph Walsh
Dr. Daniel Riordan
Guest Editor

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• remote sensors
• precision farming
• IoT in diary and livestock
• IoT in precision agriculture
• IoT in bioeconomy