Smart and Automated Agricultural Management System Using IoT

The IoT (Internet of Things) provides an opportunity for technology to transform many sectors, especially agricultural sectors. In agriculture sector, IoT technologies appear in different application areas like precision agriculture or smart farming, irrigation monitoring, environmental monitoring, cattle animal monitoring and in all other fields of agriculture. The different technologies of IoT, such as radio frequency identification (RFID), wireless sensor network (WSN), sensors and global positioning system (GPS), had been widely used in different agricultural industry process. The advancement IoT technology has been widely applied in agricultural production, process, sales and circulation which brought a number of a great benefit for maintain and monitor agricultural and animal product process easier and automatically, improving the efficiency and speed of operations in their process management. This review paper aimed to review and introduce application of IoT in agriculture, particularly, to encourage the adoption of IoT technologies for Ethiopian agricultural sectors. Indeed, this reviewed paper the key technologies of IoT in agriculture, the general framework model of IoT, IoT based system deployment architecture and potential challenges of applying IoT based agriculture were discussed.

The development of Internet of Things (IoT) technology has had a major impact on various aspects of life, including agriculture and plant care. This research aims to design a solution that can overcome the challenges of irrigating ornamental plants by utilizing soil moisture sensors and IoT technology. The approach used in this study is Hardware Programming. This approach involves leveraging hardware and programming to design and implement an IoT-based automatic watering system for ornamental plants. In its implementation, the NodeMCU ESP8266 acts as the control center, while the soil moisture sensor is used to measure soil moisture levels, the DHT11 sensor is used to measure ambient temperature, and the ultrasonic sensor is used to measure the volume of water in the container. The data obtained from these sensors is integrated with the Blynk application. The test results show that the system is able to provide an accurate and fast response regarding soil moisture conditions, as well as making it easier for users to monitor watering through mobile devices. This research contributes to overcoming plant care challenges by utilizing IoT technology and integration with the Blynk platform. It is hoped that this solution will provide benefits, especially for Tangerang Express Park rangers, so that they can monitor plant conditions in real-time.

Recent trends of smart agricultural systems based on Internet of Things technology: A survey

India is mostly a farming nation. For most Indian households, agriculture is the most important line of work. It is essential to the growth of an agricultural nation. In India, agriculture accounts for 10% of total exports and roughly 16% of GDP. The primary resource for agriculture is water. Water can be supplied by irrigation, although there can sometimes be significant water waste. Consequently, in order to conserve time and water. Agriculture uses the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies a lot these days. As a result, this article discusses a project that is built on the Internet of Things (IoT) and focuses on the agricultural sector with the aim of reducing water usage in the sector. As a result, this essay discusses a project that leverages the Internet of Things (IoT), where all information can be accessed and managed at the touch of a finger, to reduce water consumption in the agricultural sector. We have an idea for a project called an Automated Plant Watering and Fertilizing with Soil Quality Testing. The proposed method makes use of a variety of sensors that sense the different aspects of the soil, such as temperature, humidity, and soil moisture sensors, automatically irrigate the land by turning the motor on and off depending on the soil moisture value. Key Words: Sensors,PH Sensor,Arduino Board,Temp Humidity Sensor DHT-11,Soil Moisture Sensor,Water Motor, Internet of Things (IOT), Solenoid Valve

Major advances in the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are offering unprecedented automated services to various sectors. IoT has shown great promise in transforming buildings and institutions into smart buildings and institutions, making traditional task management more efficient. In particular, there has been remarkable progress in successfully integrating IoT into various contexts, such as smart homes, businesses and cities. Success in such technological transformations is not only due to the proper deployment and implementation of IoT but also to the effective employment of related technologies, such as big data and cloud computing technologies, and making informed decisions on the inclusion of the required hardware and software for all the elements involved in the IoT environment. While a significant amount of IoT research in various contexts has been proliferated in recent years, attention given to its deployment for linguistic landscapes (LLs) is still very rare. The aim of this paper is to propose a smart Al-Noor Mall LL which takes into account the appropriate deployment of IoT tools and relevant technologies. The paper also thoroughly discusses the background of the field, covering IoT technologies, cloud computing, and big data studies, followed by a review of the recent publications involving the successful deployment of IoT technologies combined with big data and cloud computing in various contexts. The literature also covers the success factors that contribute to the robustness of the required real-time operating system (RTOS) in an IoT-based environment in order to enable IoT devices to manage their resources efficiently. Based on a detailed analysis of the literature, a three-level framework (i.e. the object, communications and application levels) together with the elements that are required for IoT-based smart LL solutions is proposed. A case study of Al-Noor Mall is used to validate the proposed framework and the results indicate that IBM Bluemix can help Al-Noor Mall management and customers to locate any particular shop in the huge shopping mall, which thereby makes the customers’ shopping experience more satisfying. Finally, the challenges (i.e. energy efficiency, security, and intelligent data analysis) facing the successful deployment of IoT technologies are discussed with proposals for future research directions in the IoT research field.

The idea to connect everything to anything and at any point of time is what vaguely defines the concept of the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT is not only about providing connectivity but also facilitating interaction among these connected things. One of the most significant concerns of IoT is to provide security assurance for the data exchange because data is vulnerable to some attacks by the attackers at each layer of IoT. The IoT has a layered structure where each layer provides a service. The security needs vary from layer to layer as each layer serves a different purpose. This paper aims to analyze the various security and privacy threats related to IoT. Some attacks have been discussed along with some existing and proposed counter measures. In developing countries, IoT technologies have brought increased efficiency and effectiveness to existing processes. For instance, farmers are using remote sensors to monitor moisture levels and soil conditions in the fields to avoid crop failure. Similar sensors are providing remote control of micro-irrigation pumps for example in India and water pumps in Rwanda, improving functionality and reducing repair intervals. And in Haiti, healthcare professionals are using “smart” thermometers to better track vaccine delivery and storage. Totally the paper presents an overview of the enablement of IoT in developing countries and discusses the visions, general applications, opportunities and challenges of IoT in these countries. It also touches on issues relating to security, privacy, trust and the accompanied complexity. The potential applications for IoT are countless and can optimize processes with a direct impact on society. Certain challenges have to be addressed to make IoT deployment successful. It will be shown that some of the challenges can be turned into opportunities and that IoT has good chances to succeed in developing countries. This report explores the current use and potential of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in tackling global development challenges, highlighting a number of specific instances where IoT interventions are helping to solve some of the world’s most pressing issues it presents summary conclusions on what is required for the IoT to reach billions of people living in the developing world, and also to accelerate income growth and social development as a result.

In these days, a single search on Google Scholar using the expression Internet of Things (IoT) brings almost 3 520 000 results. Since 1999, when Kevin Ashton used the expression Internet of Things for the first time as the title of a presentation he made at Procter & Gamble, it has received more and more attention from academics, IT experts, the popular press, and the companies in general. All this attention is due to the fact that the IoT technologies are transforming the way in which companies work and do business. Two of the promising domains of the IoT technology are intelligent building and workplace management. In these days, the workstation became the second companies’ largest expense just after the payroll. Therefore, the development and implementation of IoT technology contribute to the optimization of buildings (energy saving, temperature, and air conditioning control, etc.) and workplaces (occupation rates, etc.), and has the potential to change the major patterns of the corporate real estate. As a result, integrating IoT technology in the workplace management is a strategic challenge in order to create value for the company through supporting strategic decisions, investments and workers’ productivity. The purpose of this work is to review the literature dedicated to IoT and workplace management, in order to identify relevant issues and knowledge concerning the relationship between the IoT technologies (e.g. RFID, sensor, actuator, smart item) and a building on the optimization of the workplace and the productivity of its occupants. The literature review is the best approach to the appropriation of a subject once it allows using the ideas developed in the literature to justify a particular approach to the topic, the selection of methods and demonstration of the relevance and possible contributions (Hart, 1998). This work will also present a discussion of future research directions and the principal challenges related to the IoT and workplace productivity.Purpose: A paper review of well-known journals publishing research on the subject “IoT and workspace management” from the last 10 years.Design/methodology/approach: We will follow the approach proposed by Levy and Ellis (2006) to conduct an effective literature review. We also will lean on the work of Mishra et al. (2016) that identified the most relevant authors on the IoT literature in order to identify those studies/authors relating IoT technology and workspace productivity.

The Internet of Things (IoT) technology will soon become an integral part of our daily lives to facilitate the control and monitoring of processes and objects and revolutionize the ways that human interact with the physical world. For all features of IoT to become fully functional in practice, there are several obstacles on the way to be surmounted and critical challenges to be addressed. These include, but are not limited to cybersecurity, data privacy, energy consumption and scalability. The Blockchain decentralized nature and its multi-faceted procedures offers a useful mechanism to tackle several of these IoT challenges. However, applying the Blockchain protocols to IoT without considering their tremendous computational loads, delays, and bandwidth overhead can let to a new set of problems. This review evaluates some of the main challenges we face in the integration of Blockchain and IoT technologies and provides insights and high level solutions that can potentially handle the shortcomings and constraints of both IoT and Blockchain technologies.

As more and more applications are deployed using the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, the fragmentation of general purpose IoT technologies to target particular sectors with different requirements is becoming necessary. In this paper, we summarize the latest developments of application-specific IoTs (ASIoTs) (a term to conceptualize the development of IoTs targeted toward specific domains, communications mediums, and industry sectors) in eight representative studies (Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT), Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), Internet of Animal Things (IoAT), Internet of Waste Things (IoWT), Internet of Underwater Things (IoUWT), Internet of Underground Things (IoUGT), Internet of Nano Things (IoNT), and Internet of Mobile Things (IoMobT) such as the Internet of Vehicles). The paper gives contributions to ASIoTs from three perspectives: First, we offer a basic classification taxonomy for ASIoTs and discuss various representative studies and applications which can be found in the literature; Second, we discuss a use case for a biometrics-based ASIoT (termed IoBioT) for illustration and experiments of face-based biometric recognition on IoBioT are also performed; and Third, we give discussions and future directions for ASIoTs. An objective of this paper is to spur researchers and facilitate the development of ASIoTs for the different user-defined domains, communication mediums, and technology constrained platforms.

Smart city is a city that increases the interactivity of its components and put emphasis on their functionality. Internet of Things technology (IoT) is an innovative solution in environmental protection. Usually, information on air quality is very scattered. This paper describes the test stages of pre-implementation works, focusing on the presentation of the technical design of the measurement nodes and the assumptions of the IT project. The goal of the project Intelligent Wireless Sensor Network Infrastructure (IIBSC) is, among others, to create a dense network of air quality measurement nodes at city, district or even street level. The concept is based on Internet of Things (IoT) technology using a matrix construction tool connected to multiple identical measurement nodes located in the test area. The project developed a hardware platform supporting sensors and resistant to external factors, and an ISIMPIO information platform based on edge processing technology for processing data from air quality sensors. Due to the use of Internet of Things (IoT) technology, an edge server using edge processing was designed. Edge server provides a complete ecosystem for building edge applications that are fully optimized for seamless field work. In addition, it allows the implementation of integrated Python software, the MQ Telemetry Transport support protocol (MQTT), time-series database, firmware update over a wireless network, and built-in security system. Measuring the concentration of particulate matter and other substances in the air will be useful for specialists assessing their dynamics. The technology and test installation selected corresponds to the leading solutions in this field in Europe and, in the future, should also be extended to less urbanised areas.

When the large amount of Distributed Generations (DGs) are connected to the grid, the whole distributed power network lost line, and the voltage fluctuates are obvious. In recent years, the concepts of power Internet of Things (IoT)technology and energy Internet are proposed. Therefore, power grid technology has entered a new stage. The IoT technology is characterized by high bandwidth, high transmission rate, and low latency. In addition, with the collected data are increased, IoT becomes an effective way to improve the computing power of edge nodes in edge computing. In order to reduce network losses and voltage fluctuations, reactive power optimization is need to be implement in distribution network system. This paper proposes a distributed power voltage regulation strategy based on the particle swarm optimization and deep belief network (PSO-DBN) under the IoT. Firstly, IoT technology and characteristics are introduced, and the current research status of voltage regulation technology are analyzed in distribution network. Secondly, the weight of DBN is improved with PSO. Finally, the IEEE33 bus system is taken as a simulation case, the effects of daily reactive power optimization and the amount of historical data is analyzed. It is concluded that the method proposed in this paper has obvious effects on reducing voltage fluctuation and network loss. KeywordsDistributed generationIoTPSO-DBNReactive power optimization

The Blockchain technology provides a way to record transactions or any digital interaction that is designed to be secure, tamper-proof, transparent, highly resistant to outages, traceable and auditable. The Internet of Things (IoT) technology is able to link computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people that are provided with unique identifiers (UIDs) and provides the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. These features encourage us to explore the combined application of IoT and Blockchain-based technology. In this paper, we propose a system architecture of blockchain and IoT based intellectual property protection system, which can process three types of intellectual property: 1) Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks etc.; 2) Industrial design, Trade dress, Craft works, Trade secrets etc.; and 3) Plant variety rights, Geographical indications etc. Using blockchain P2P network and IoT devices, the system can help us to establish a trusted, self-organized, open and ecological intellectual property protection system. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that applying blockchain technology and IoT technology on traditional intellectual property protection and trade ecosystem.

Chapter 10 - Security and privacy challenges in healthcare using Internet of Things

This research aims to comprehend the air quality in rooftop areas in the city of DKI Jakarta, renowned for its high population density and rapid infrastructure development. The main focus is on the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the roof area, serving as an indicator of air quality influenced by air pollution, industrial activity, and heavy transportation. The utilization of Internet of Things (IoT) technology and CO2 sensors proves to be an effective solution for real-time monitoring of CO2 concentrations. This research holds significance for air pollution control measures, providing insight into the impact of rooftop gardens in reducing CO2 emissions and inspiring future research in the realms of air quality and IoT technology. Through prior literature, three notable studies underscore the industrial and technological impact of CO2 monitoring. The research was conducted in two locations in DKI Jakarta, namely the Garden Roof and Ordinary Roof areas. Monitoring took place over four parts of the day with a four-hour interval to compare CO2 levels. The tools employed included the NodeMCU ESP8266, DHT-22 sensor, and MQ-135 sensor. Results revealed that roof areas with gardens exhibited lower average CO2 levels (295 PPM) compared to regular roofs (360 PPM), indicating the potential of garden roof designs to reduce CO2 concentrations. Research recommendations include increasing the frequency of data collection and considering additional factors for a more comprehensive understanding of urban air quality.

Introduction: This study aimed to develop a temperature monitoring system for food storage in two supermarkets located in the city of Parintins, Amazonas. The research was structured in two stages: the development of the system based on microcontrollers with integration with Internet of Things (IoT) technology, followed by the application and evaluation of the model in real storage environments. This is an applied research, with a qualitative approach and a case study design. The results obtained demonstrate that the collected data presented stability and allowed precise and continuous temperature control, without registering variations that would compromise the integrity of the stored products. In view of the analyses performed, it is concluded that the developed system is technically effective, with potential for replication and adaptation to different logistics contexts in the food sector, contributing to the improvement of food preservation and safety processes. Objective: The objective of this study is to investigate thermal monitoring with IoT in supermarkets in Parintins-AM, in order to evaluate its impacts on food quality. Theoretical Framework: This topic presents the main concepts that underpin the research. Cold storage stands out as an essential method for maintaining food quality and the Internet of Things (IoT) as a key technology for automated and continuous temperature monitoring. Method: The methodology adopted for this research comprises a case study with a qualitative approach and applied nature, carried out in two supermarkets in Parintins-AM. The system was developed with microcontrollers integrated with IoT technology. Data collection was performed through continuous monitoring of the temperature in the food deposits, using sensors connected to the system, allowing real-time analysis of the storage environment. Results and Discussion: The results obtained revealed that the thermal monitoring system presented stable performance, allowing precise and continuous temperature control in the warehouses, without variations that would compromise food quality. The discussion section highlights the effectiveness of IoT technologies in cold storage and their positive impact on food safety. Possible limitations, such as the need for adequate infrastructure and operational variations between supermarkets, are also considered. Research Implications: This research contributes to the field of technology applied to food safety, demonstrating the feasibility of using IoT in thermal monitoring of storage environments. Its implications reach areas such as supermarkets, food logistics, quality control and conservation, pointing out ways to increase efficiency and reduce losses in the food sector. Originality/Value: This study contributes by applying IoT to the thermal monitoring of food in supermarkets, an innovative and little explored approach. Its value is evidenced by the possibility of improving food preservation and reducing losses in the food sector.