Progress and Prospect in Agricultural Internet of Things.

The internet of things (IOT) technology marks another great leap of the global information industry after computer and internet. IOT presents unprecedented opportunities for rapid development of agricultural modernization. This paper briefly introduced the concept and architecture of IOT in agriculture; analyzed the key techniques of IOT in agriculture from three levels as information awareness, network transmission and processing application; summarized the present research at home and abroad, and applying status and existing problems of IOT in agriculture; put forward the development strategy and key measures for its development in China; and pointed out that IOT in agriculture would become more thorough and comprehensive perception, with more safe and reliable connectivity, more optimization of system integration, and its development trends would be more in-depth intelligence services. Thus, IOT in agriculture; would surely play more; important role; in promoting the; fusion of informationization and agricultural modernization, and in accelerating the development of agricultural modernization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]