Leveraging LoRaWAN technology for smart agricultural monitoring of Malaysian palm oil plantation

Abstract

Palm oil is a vital cash crop in tropical Asia. Implementation of technology in palm oil industry not only increase production but also it reduces the plantation management cost significantly. Affordability of smart devices of the farm owners is the major concern behind not using technologies in production and process. There are a lot of technologies are being used in agriculture sectors to ease the manual labour with reduced cost. Study on the challenges faced by the plantation owners is needed to introduce new technological solutions for the plantation management in Malaysia. This article reviews some problems on technologybased monitoring. A qualitative research has been conducted to address the problems faced by the authority of Palm oil plantation. Based on the problem statement researcher introduced a conceptual study of LoRaWAN (Low power wide area network) embedded system suitable for low cost energy efficient Palm oil plantation monitoring. Installation of IoT based device will ensure smart monitoring as well as handling the agriculture activities of the Palm oil plantation with reduced manpower resources.