Incorporating IoT devices into agricultural equipment for real-time monitoring

Agricultural monitoring, data collection, and decision-making have increasingly been assisted by digital technologies, enabled by sensors, cameras, immersive media, and even robotics. This has led to a steadily-growing interest in smart and precision agricultural components and methods to enable sustainable development while improving agricultural productivity. These tools tend to be either for local operation or for larger system-wide data collection, but with different characteristics. Few assistance tools provide real-time information that can stimulate fast decision-making processes, especially for small to medium scale agricultural operations, who still rely on local expertise-based thinking.