Agricultural IoT technology realizes scientific planting, helps farmers improve comprehensive benefits and promotes the transformation and upgrading of modern agriculture

Internet of Things (IoT) technology is a great invention of the 21st century. IoT technology is widely used in various fields, among which the application in agriculture is called agricultural IoT.

The application of agricultural IoT technology can make the items iconic, traceable and inheritable, and establish a set of modern farming operation technology and management system supported by information technology that is positioned, timed and quantified according to the spatial variation, so as to adjust the inputs to crops according to the soil properties of crop growth, and then realize the precise control of precise agriculture and intelligent agriculture.

In this way, we can view the spatial variation of soil properties and productivity within the field, determine the production goals of crops, perform "system diagnosis, optimal formulation, technology assembly, and scientific management", mobilize soil productivity, achieve the same or higher income with the least or most economical inputs, improve the environment, and efficiently Utilization of various agricultural resources to achieve economic and environmental benefits.

IOT technology is playing an increasing role in monitoring crop irrigation, soil air changes, environmental conditions of livestock and poultry, as well as surface detection of large areas, collecting temperature, humidity, wind, atmosphere, rainfall, moisture, nitrogen concentration and soil pH of the land concerned, thus realizing scientific monitoring, scientific planting, helping farmers to resist and mitigate disasters, improving comprehensive agricultural benefits, and promoting transformation and upgrading of modern agriculture.

Adopting IOT technology in the field of agriculture and rural informatization, using sensing technology, intelligent expert management system, remote monitoring and remote sensing system, biological information and diagnosis system, food safety traceability system, etc., through real-time sensing collection and historical data storage, we can figure out the demand pattern of plant growth on temperature, humidity, light and soil, and provide accurate scientific research experiment data.

Through intelligent analysis and linkage control function, it can meet the requirements of plant growth on various indicators of the environment in a timely and precise manner to achieve the purpose of high yield increase; through intelligent analysis and precise intervention of light and temperature, it can make the flowering period of plants, especially valuable flowers, follow the artificial regulation completely.

At present, there are many development projects about agricultural IOT applications. For example.

1. soil nutrient and soil moisture monitoring to provide guidance for crop selection and cultivation methods.

2. food production information monitoring to provide effective data for scientific decision-making by regulatory authorities to protect food security.

3. agricultural greenhouse monitoring, field automation management, through continuous monitoring of soil moisture data to achieve multi-point simultaneous drip irrigation and water replenishment.

4. 2D code animal traceability, which enables consumers to fully understand product information and ensure food safety through food traceability labels.