Integrating the Web of Things in Agriculture: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities

Abstract

The last few years have introduced the Web of Things (WoT) as a revolutionary technology in the agricultural field that provided new approaches to existing problems IoT applications face in agriculture. WoT promotes integration and cooperation among different devices, structures, and platforms and contributes tothe evolution of other technologies. The objective of this research is to present the state of the art in the research on WoT based agriculture, its current problems, and future opportunities. To this end, this paper provides a systematic literature review (SLR) of the articles published from 2010 to 2020 based on the research type, approach, and application domain of the selected studies. Besides, this study gives a classification of WoT-based agricultural applications and offers the notion of WoT-based Smart Agriculture by presenting a conceptual model. Last but not the least, this SLR presents the emerging research areas and directions, issues for further research at the end of this paper.