A Research Review of Precision Farming Techniques and Technology

Recent technological developments and advancements in soft computing (decision support systems) and information technology have paved way to the development of precision-based agriculture. These new trends have enabled the exploitation of modern techniques and tools such as wireless sensor technology, soft computing techniques and IOT to improve the economic and environmental sustainability of agricultural production. The new trend of precision farming/agriculture distinguishes and discerns itself from the traditional techniques of farming through efficient, planned, systematic and justified use and application of resources for improved and increased yield production. In order to achieve this, precision farming exploits soft computing tools such as Support Vector Machines (SVM), Fuzzy Logic (FL), Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Decision Trees (DT), geographic information systems such as weather patterns and remote sensing technologies such as Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), to monitor and predict real time and future requirements of farm produce for improved food security. This research paper reviews the application of various techniques and technologies employed in precision farming.