5G and IoT for Smart Farming

Abstract

Since the advent of technology, it is growing by leaps and bounds. The thirst to be connected to the world has led to the emergence of 5G in 2019. Mobile technologies are evolving rapidly to address various concerns related to speed, efficiency, connectivity, power consumption, bandwidth, and latency. As compared to its predecessors, 5G provides a greater speed and higher bandwidth to exchange data, in lesser time. Thus, it can cater to many advanced communication applications and fully supports the current modern technology and solves its intended purpose. 5G seems promising in connecting any device, object, or human to any other node, at any location and at all times. It is expected that by 2030, the network traffic and dependency on wireless communication will experience a massive increase and 5G is ready to support such a huge volume of traffic. This chapter will present a systematic and detailed study of 5G, a comparative analysis of 5G with its predecessor technologies, its potential applications, and current use cases of 5G, with a special focus on the agricultural sector.