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Innovation and Digital Transformation for a Sustainable World

Figure 3 – Taxonomy of agricultural IoT devices

Figure 4 – Taxonomy of smart farm system and service

exhibition in Japan. AGRI NEXT (10th International Smart 2 shows a breakdown of the product types. Many of the
Agriculture Expo) is an agriculture-related exhibition that products exhibited were packaged products such as systems
was held on October 11-13, 2023, during Agriculture WEEK, and services. A majority of the edge devices were drones and
where the latest technologies, such as IT/DX, drones, robots, sensors.
and plant factories, are gathered under one roof. At the event,
The taxonomy was created by dividing the surveyed products
visitors can see and compare products and services from all
into devices and systems/services. The devices were first
over Japan. Our survey is conducted on the products exhibited
classified into three categories according to type. Since
at AGRI NEXT and products related to agriculture produced
most of the edge devices in the surveyed products contained
by vendors exhibiting at the Agricultural EXPO. A list of
sensors, they were grouped into the ’Sensor’ category. The
products surveyed for the events is shown in [18].
other two categories were ’Controllers,’ representing devices
We selected 137 products out of the 263, excluding those controlling sensors, and ’Network Devices,’ which function
that clearly do not require communication. In addition, as communication devices. Within the Sensor category, a
38 agriculture-related products were added to the survey, further distinction was made between ’Stand-alone Sensors,’
referring to the websites of vendors who were not exhibiting which operate independently, and ’Built-in Devices,’ which
their products at AGRI NEXT but were on the exhibitor list. are integrated into specific equipment. Among the surveyed
In the end, a total of 175 products were included in the survey. devices, we divided those containing built-in sensors into
We classified the 175 surveyed products by type. Figure two main types: ’Land Mobility’ and ’Drone.’ Next, we

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