IOT applications in Agriculture

The most difficult environmental challenges that Jordan faces nowadays is the limited resources of water. Jordan is among the countries that have the lowest level of water resources around the world. The water scarcity in Jordan is expected to be more significant with the continuous increase in the population size and the noticeable decrease in the annually reserved water. The above fact has motivated researchers to look for practical solutions for water saving in its different forms of usage. Besides the directions that are always advertised to the population about how to use water effectively in their daily life, attention should be also given to other sources of water usage, such as agriculture sector. Saving 20% of the water usage in the agriculture sector worth more than 50% of the water used for the daily usage. This talk is about how to develop an automatic irrigation system by using IoT technologies and how could this solution open the doors for many ideas and small and large scale businesses.