From Precision Agriculture to Agriculture 4.0: Integrating ICT in Farming

Lefteris Benos (), Nikolaos Makaritis and Vasileios Kolorizos
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Lefteris Benos: Institute for Bio-Economy and Agri-Technology (iBO), Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH)
Nikolaos Makaritis: Institute for Bio-Economy and Agri-Technology (iBO), Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH)
Vasileios Kolorizos: Institute for Bio-Economy and Agri-Technology (iBO), Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH)

A chapter in Information and Communication Technologies for Agriculture—Theme III: Decision, 2022, pp 79-93 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The ever-increasing need for food worldwide, the scarcity of natural resources, and climate change call for drastic changes in conventional agricultural processes. Agriculture is called to adapt to the rapid evolution of technology by incorporating innovative technologies to the applied practices. To that end, Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), including sensors, robots, artificial intelligence, wireless sensor networks, and cloud computing constitute a family of technologies that can provide beneficial solutions that can contribute to the modernization of agricultural operations. The “big data,” produced by these technologies, are capable of helping towards this direction and facilitate the management of various fields of agricultural production. As a matter of fact, the next-generation technology standard, namely 5G, gives a plethora of new opportunities for farmers rendering itself a game changer for the ICT realization. This chapter focuses on prerequisites for the fourth agricultural revolution, namely Agriculture 4.0. It briefly describes the main Agricultural 4.0 components, as a means of giving an overview of this field in conjunction with the potential benefits in agriculture.

Keywords: Smart farming; Information and communication technologies; Agriculture 4.0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-84152-2_4

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