Internet of Things in agriculture, recent advances and future challenges

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 164, Issue , 2017, Pages 31-48

  Tzounis, Antonis ^a   Katsoulas, Nikolaos ^a   Bartzanas, Thomas ^b   Kittas, Constantinos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cloud; Food supply chain; Internet of things; RFID; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIG DATA; CLOUDS; FOOD SUPPLY; INTEROPERABILITY; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SUPPLY CHAINS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

AGRICULTURAL BUSINESS; AGRICULTURAL SECTOR; CURRENT PENETRATION; FUTURE CHALLENGES; HETEROGENEOUS DEVICES; INDUSTRIALISATION; NEW APPLICATIONS; RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS;

INTERNET OF THINGS;

EID: 85031943069     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2017.09.007     Document Type: Review

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