TY - JOUR
T1 - IoT in Agriculture
T2 - Designing a Europe-Wide Large-Scale Pilot
AU - Brewster, Christopher
AU - Roussaki, Ioanna
AU - Kalatzis, Nikos
AU - Doolin, Kevin
AU - Ellis, Keith
N1 - Funding Information:
IntroductIon The Internet of Things (IoT) provides a unique opportunity for technology to transform many industries [1, 2], including the food and agriculture sector. The agrifood sector has a rather low level of uptake of information and communications technology (ICT) and a relatively high cost of data capture [3]. The stack of technologies in IoT [4] includes sensors, actuators, drones, navigation systems, cloud-based data services, and analytics delivering a variety of decision support tools, and could significantly change this sector. In Europe, large-scale deployments, or pilots (LSPs), of IoT in the context of H2020 [5] will be funded by the European Commission. This article provides an overview of the potential role that IoT can play in the agrifood sector from the perspective of designing and specifying such an IoT-based LSP, thus enabling the readers to understand the associated opportunities, constraints, and requirements of the sector that IoT can address.
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PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The technologies associated with the Internet of Things have great potential for application in the domain of food and agriculture, especially in view of the societal and environmental challenges faced by this sector. From farm to fork, IoT technologies could transform the sector, contributing to food safety, and the reduction of agricultural inputs and food waste. A major step toward greater uptake of these technologies will be the execution of IoT-based large-scale pilots (LSPs) in the entire supply chain. This article outlines the challenges and constraints that an LSP deployment of IoT in this domain must consider. Sectoral and technological challenges are described in order to identify a set of technological and agrifood requirements. An architecture based on a system of systems approach is briefly presented, the importance of addressing the interoperability challenges faced by this sector is highlighted, and we elaborate on requirements for new business models, security, privacy, and data governance. A description of the technologies and solutions involved in designing pilots for four agrifood domains (dairy, fruit, arable, meat and vegetable supply chain) is eventually provided. In conclusion, it is noted that for IoT to be successful in this domain, a significant change of culture is needed.
AB - The technologies associated with the Internet of Things have great potential for application in the domain of food and agriculture, especially in view of the societal and environmental challenges faced by this sector. From farm to fork, IoT technologies could transform the sector, contributing to food safety, and the reduction of agricultural inputs and food waste. A major step toward greater uptake of these technologies will be the execution of IoT-based large-scale pilots (LSPs) in the entire supply chain. This article outlines the challenges and constraints that an LSP deployment of IoT in this domain must consider. Sectoral and technological challenges are described in order to identify a set of technological and agrifood requirements. An architecture based on a system of systems approach is briefly presented, the importance of addressing the interoperability challenges faced by this sector is highlighted, and we elaborate on requirements for new business models, security, privacy, and data governance. A description of the technologies and solutions involved in designing pilots for four agrifood domains (dairy, fruit, arable, meat and vegetable supply chain) is eventually provided. In conclusion, it is noted that for IoT to be successful in this domain, a significant change of culture is needed.
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U2 - 10.1109/MCOM.2017.1600528
DO - 10.1109/MCOM.2017.1600528
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85029605450
SN - 0163-6804
VL - 55
SP - 26
EP - 33
JO - IEEE Communications Magazine
JF - IEEE Communications Magazine
IS - 9
M1 - 8030481
ER -