December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
296 pages
5h 56m
English
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Agriculture and IoT
A report by Beecham Research predicts that the world population will reach 8 billion by 2025 and 9.6 billion by 2050, and in order to keep pace, food production must increase by 70% by 2050. Here is the report: https://www.beechamresearch.com/files/BRL%20Smart%20Farming%20Executive%20Summary.pdf
This means that we need to find quicker and more productive ways of farming. Land and resources are going to get scarcer as we keep moving toward 2050. This is when, given the resources, we would need to feed more mouths than ever before, unless a zombie apocalypse comes and all of us get eaten up by other zombies!
This is a very good opportunity for technology to provide solutions to make this happen. IoT has almost always been ...