IoT Food for Thought
Smart buildings. Smart factories. Smart cities. Connected cars. Most discussions of the Internet of Things focus on infrastructure applications that we’re most familiar with. But there’s one essential part of the global economy that usually doesn’t spring to mind when thoughts turn to IoT, and it affects everyone on the planet. It’s the agricultural sector.
Just as IoT is expected to improve or enable the automated operation of billions of processes to increase efficiency and productivity in transportation, manufacturing, healthcare and the like, it will also underpin a worldwide agricultural transformation. The development of “smart agriculture” is already under way, and there are now 7.5 billion reasons why this is important.
The world’s population just passed the 7.5 billion mark, and it’s projected to hit 8 billion before 2025. That’s a lot of hungry mouths to feed, and any major disruptions in the food supply chain will result in dire consequences. Read more…