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Social Internet of Things in Agriculture: An Overview and Future Scope

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Toward Social Internet of Things (SIoT): Enabling Technologies, Architectures and Applications

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Worldwide it is a great challenge to farmers and agricultural specialists and scientists to feed the growing population, and the irony is that agricultural lands are diminishing and getting squeezed in between whimsical weather and unpredictable commodities market of farm produces. The Social Internet of Things (SIoT) which is the ability of gathering and exchange of data over a network without human-to-human or human-to computer interface rather it makes use of social objects creating a social network. The fundamental characteristics of IoT are seamless connectivity, accuracy of delivery of services, dynamic response, enormous scale, safety and security, promptness, mutual support, sensing and expressing and these can be used in agriculture as well. SIoT can enormously contribute in weather forecast, insect pest management, humidity, rainfall, soil fertility status, identifying leaf dryness and wetness, temperature variation, wind flow and soil moisture conditions. SIoT can also control plant environmental factors viz. temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide concentration and illumination according to the condition of crop growth in real time and it can be used in vertical farming. IoT has huge potential in smart precision farming.

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    Chandan Kumar Panda

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    Roheet Bhatnagar

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Panda, C.K., Bhatnagar, R. (2020). Social Internet of Things in Agriculture: An Overview and Future Scope. In: Hassanien, A., Bhatnagar, R., Khalifa, N., Taha, M. (eds) Toward Social Internet of Things (SIoT): Enabling Technologies, Architectures and Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 846. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24513-9_18

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