An evaluation of the examples of mobile smart agriculture applications in Turkiye

Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Field Crops Central Research Institute, Department of Agricultural Machinery and Technologies Yenimahalle, Ankara, Turkiye

^* Corresponding author: zeynep.atasoy @tarimorman.gov.tr

Abstract

The technological process of agricultural mechanization has evolved from mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic structures to electrical-electronic and mechatronic systems. With the addition of digital technologies in recent years, agricultural mechanization tools have had functions as time-independent, non-spatial, and unmanned. Agricultural production technologies are now equipped with integrated systems with the Internet of Things, cloud informatics, image processing, wireless data transmission, and mobile-portable devices. Today, during the production process, physical, biological, or chemical data detected through sensors from plants, animals, soil, and atmosphere are uploaded to computers and cloud informatic technologies as big data sets. The data is presented to decision-makers via mobile devices connected to the internet. Within the scope of this study, examples of mobile-portable applications used in the field of smart agriculture in the world and our country were generally examined. In addition, technological and sectoral applications for mobile smart agriculture in our country have been taken over. Currently, common application examples of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, and some private sector companies, that produce these technologies and provide them for the end users, have also been researched in this context. In addition to these, the strengths and weaknesses of the current portable mobile applications in agricultural production have been tried to be analyzed in terms of our country’s conditions.