Internet of Things Technology for Agriculture in Ethiopia: A Review

The IoT (Internet of Things) provides an opportunity for technology to transform many sectors, especially agricultural sectors. In agriculture sector, IoT technologies appear in different application areas like precision agriculture or smart farming, irrigation monitoring, environmental monitoring, cattle animal monitoring and in all other fields of agriculture. The different technologies of IoT, such as radio frequency identification (RFID), wireless sensor network (WSN), sensors and global positioning system (GPS), had been widely used in different agricultural industry process. The advancement IoT technology has been widely applied in agricultural production, process, sales and circulation which brought a number of a great benefit for maintain and monitor agricultural and animal product process easier and automatically, improving the efficiency and speed of operations in their process management. This review paper aimed to review and introduce application of IoT in agriculture, particularly, to encourage the adoption of IoT technologies for Ethiopian agricultural sectors. Indeed, this reviewed paper the key technologies of IoT in agriculture, the general framework model of IoT, IoT based system deployment architecture and potential challenges of applying IoT based agriculture were discussed.