A Real and Novel Smart Agriculture Implementation with IoT Technology
Wei-Min Cheng, Huai-Jen Liu, Robert F. Chen, Wei‐Chin Chang, Jyh-Juan Yuan, Jimmy Chen, Janice Jiang · 2021
There’s an old saying in Chinese, “food first, ethical niceties second.” It tells us how important it is to solve the food crisis. However, for the past decades, because the natural environment changes enormously, pests and disease occur more frequently, and higher and higher manpower costs need to be paid, the traditional agriculture is facing lots of new challenges. In order to address these issues, agricultural technologies with IoT technologies are proposed, but most people consider smart agriculture (smart farming) or called intelligent agriculture as planting crops with different sensors that can give farmers a dashboard to show lots of different numerical information. Some people even call this “Agriculture 4.0.”[1] In this paper, we will try to give a more clear definition of “Smart Agriculture” from our point of view. Furthermore, in our work, we tried to implement what we call a complete smart agriculture solution in one shot, especially for the most common hard-working smallholder farmers. In addition, we also implemented the proposed solution named TIAGA in real rural areas. We’ll discuss and show the results of one of the successful examples in this paper. We hope that through this paper, we can provide some new directions for the development of smart agriculture and improve the lives of the most hard-working smallholder farmers in traditional rural areas.