Selection of suitable IoT-based End-devices, tools, and technologies for implementing Smart Farming: Issues and Challenges

Purpose of Study: In the contemporary world, Internet-of-Things have become an indispensable part of our lives. The present era is of sensor-based electronic gadgets. Nowadays, more or less, every aspect of human life, from Home Automation, Healthcare, and Fitness, Agriculture, Education, Entertainment, Locomotive, Smart Farming, Smart Digital Cities, towards Industrial IoT, each one is redesigned from statistical to qualitative mechanisms. With the growing trends and technological transformations, the reality is that Internet-of-Things play a vital role. Currently, the agriculture industry is precise, and data-centered than traditional farming. Such revolutionary changes in the smart farming in the last decades are shaking the existing agriculture methods and creating new opportunities in the specific agriculture domains like crop status, insect and pest detection, and removal, irrigation, soil preparation, crop surveillance along with a range of unfolded issues and challenges. This study highlights the potential unfolded issues and challenges in the domain specific and precise selection of Internet-of-Thing based devices with supportive technologies and tools for instigating Smart Farming. Methodology: a systematic data processing approach with literature search and screening to review, is used in this study to identify selection of suitable iot-based end-devices, tools and technologies for implementing smart farming Main Findings: This study discussed the various IoT end-devices, tools and technologies in a well-organized manner. This study also highlights the foremost outspread challenges during selection of IoT-based resources for smart farming. Implications: This article is beneficial to all concerned stakeholders involved in agricultural activities like farmers, agricultural institutions, professional decision makers, who are passionate for enhancing the smart farming. Novelty/Originality of the study: Various scholars/researchers have been making efforts for smart farming by using IoT concepts in agriculture. This study make some efforts to discussed past research on IoT tools and Technology and challenges in selection of IoT devices for implementing an Iot based infrastructure for smart farming.