Industry 4.0 Applications in Agriculture: Cyber-Physical Agricultural Systems (CPASs)

Abstract

The increase in the demand of agricultural food products that includes processed food, meat, dairy and fish will put the current food production and supply systems under pressure. The high demand for food resources needs high agricultural productivity. Industry 4.0 technologies such as cyber-physical systems (CPSs), Internet of Services (IoS), Internet of things (IoT), cloud computing (CC) and big data promise huge potential in the field of agricultural supply chains through digitalization. This article proposes a framework for cyber-physical agricultural systems (CPASs) which is an intelligent integration of CPS, IoT, CC and big data with agricultural systems. CPAS can be applied in leveraging agricultural supply chains and boosting productivity.