Abstract: Adoption of Internet of things (IoT) has been accepted across all areas of human endeavors. With the world population predicted to reach 9.2 billion by 2050 and the world suggestions on climate change, there is urgent need for the agriculture ecosystem to help the world prepare for these unavoidable realities through application of new and sustainable methods of farming. One major practice in agriculture today is precision/smart farming and IoT have been a major driver of precision/smart agriculture across the world. Many studies have been conducted on applying IoT technologies to improve agriculture; this paper just extends on them and proposes a new IoT architecture as a major driver for implementing sustainable smart/precision agriculture.
This paper discusses on what smart/precision agriculture is and technologies that drive it. It narrates previous and current status of agriculture in Nigeria and proposes application of IoT to improve food production cycle with the aim of using agriculture to diversify Nigeria economy. It suggested a sustainable model, and uses a new IoT architecture as a standard framework for precision/smart agriculture in Nigeria taking into consideration the entire agriculture ecosystem. It also establishes the proof of solution for the concept.
Keywords: Smart/Precision agriculture, Internet of Things, sustainable IoT model, IoT architecture, agriculture ecosystem, Big Data Analysis, agro Platform.
Title: Towards Diversification of Nigeria Economy through Adoption of IoT for Smart and Precision Agriculture
Author: Lukman Lamid Idowu, Isa Ali Ibrahim (PhD), Usman Gambo Abdullahi (PhD)
International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Research
ISSN 2348-1196 (print), ISSN 2348-120X (online)
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