Utilities of 5G Communication Technologies for Promoting Advancement in Agriculture 4.0: Recent Trends, Research Issues and Review of Literature

Abstract

AbstractThe ultrafast 5G network will play a significant role in the farming industry over the upcoming couple of years, serving to boost crop yield and quality while requiring minimal labour. Farmers will be more informed to make smart decisions regarding irrigation by using smart and precision farming. The introduction of 5G will significantly alter the farming characteristics and agriculture practices in this era of Agriculture 4.0. 5G network’s IoT-based cloud computing service offers smart farming solutions that are both flexible and resourceful. This will permit the seamless operation of various unmanned agricultural devices during ploughing, sowing seed and managing phases of crop farming, resulting in secure, dependable, environment-friendly and energy-efficient operations, as well as the creation of unmanned farms. This paper examines the need for and role of smart and precision farming in the agricultural sector incorporating 5G applications in precision farming in the present era of Agriculture 4.0, such as real-time monitoring, data analytics, cloud repositories, virtual consultation and predictive maintenance and also discusses upcoming opportunities. 5G-based IoT solutions focusing towards Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) like automated control and self-driven vehicles to support rapid response times and higher dependability will diminish communication delays in time-sensitive agriculture applications and non-public networks to allocate part of frequency spectrum on demand, network slicing alternatives are also discussed here.