Technology has made lives easier for people in every sector. From big IT companies to healthcare, adopting technology has impacted everyone. IoT has also made an impact on the agricultural sector. According to a survey, the IoT market in agriculture stood at 1.8 billion dollars globally.
It is further expected to grow by 4.3 billion dollars by the year 2023. The global population is about to reach 9.6 billion by the year 2050. To feed people globally, it must adopt the internet of things technology in agriculture. IoT technology can race against challenges like extreme weather conditions, environmental impact, and climatic changes.
A global digital concentration camp with total surveillance over voiceless masses through implanted microchips is a popular bugaboo among many anti globalists who can recognize technical capabilities of the contemporary IoT sector.
But the concept becomes much less creepy if we change humans as the object of surveillance with animals.
Consider a livestock industry, for example.
Twenty five million cattle roaming around endless Australian flatlands can be much better treated and thus can bring more meat and milk to the livestock industry if blood oxygen levels, heart beat rate, body temperature, and daily activities of the cows are monitored remotely representing precise data about the herd health to cattle farmers.
It is the turn of agriculture to acquire the “smart” prefix in the light of a total digitization.
The so-called “agriculture 2.0” or smart farming is transformed from a conceptual category into a common practice due to several determining factors.