Agriculture’s need for analytics and IoT

Extract from OR/MS Today (Joseph Byrum)

How analytics can play a major role in ensuring a growing world population will have enough food to eat for generations to come.

Analytics and Internet of Things (IoT) devices promise to deliver massive returns on innovation in agriculture. When it comes to smart devices, most attention immediately turns to the home where phones and tablets communicate with lights, thermostats and other appliances to enhance the convenience of our living environments. That’s certainly a welcomed advance, but analytics and IoT can achieve even more, perhaps playing a major role in ensuring a growing world population will have enough food to eat for generations to come.