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5 Unleashing the potential of the Internet of Things

Introduction

An actualized convergence service for agriculture is expected to bring more efficiency and quality
improvement in production, distribution and consumption of agricultural products with the aid of IT
information processing and autonomous control technologies.

However, there exist many difficulties to establish services and systems to actualize the convergence
service in the agricultural field to cope with various problems such as time-varying weather changes,
growth condition of farm products, and continual diseases or technical problems such as battery life
and sensor malfunctions due to severe conditions. In addition, the gap of viewpoints between people
engaged in farming and IT engineers may make it difficult to accomplish this mission.

Therefore, it is appropriate to consider an actualized convergence service for agriculture, namely
Smart Farming, as a solution to cope with anticipated problems. In addition, the aspect of network
capabilities to support this convergence service, where various types of networks, such as NGN,
Future Networks and legacy networks, could be applied should be considered. This Recommendation
develops a reference model, defines service capabilities and identifies network capabilities required
to support such services.

812 Rec. ITU-T Y.4450/Y.2238 (06/2015)