UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA - FKE - UTM

7farming. Adoption of various technologies differs. The adoption rate of variableratefertilizer applications and yield monitors (using mainly GPS and GIS) isgreater than 5% for only two countries, USA and Canada. Australia, Brazil,Denmark, United Kingdom and Germany have an adoption rate ranging from 1%to 5%, while these two technologies are unknown in Asia and Africa except forsome remote location. This is because most farmers do not have the skills to utilizethese technologies effectively.Recent advances in sensor and wireless radio frequency (RF) technologiesand their convergence with the Internet offer vast opportunities for developmentand application of sensor systems for agriculture. The objective was to createregional and on-farm sensor networks that provide remote, real-time monitoringand/or control of important farming operations that add value through improvedefficiency and efficacy of targeted management practices. The emergingtechnologies of wireless sensor networks (WSN) will provide new economicopportunities for world agriculture through their application to remote, real-timemonitoring and control of important aspects of high quality food production andprocessing systems.In scale agricultural production, adopting intelligent management softwaremay adjust the production flow. Because of above condition, more and moreagricultural managers begin to pay attention to the validity; elasticity andextensibility of intelligent agricultural application system which not only can becontrolled and managed, but also can reduce the cost of safeguarding and updatingsystem. Emphasis has been placed on reducing the time between data acquisitionand delivery of value-added products to farmers, developing practical uses for thedata and providing basic training so that the end users could understand how tointerpret the information.Another term that are been used by farmers for electronic farming is thedigital agriculture. Digital Agriculture is featured by digitization of agriculturalactivity and is agriculture driven by digits. Its main aim is to build an integratedagricultural system, which combines data collection, data transmission, data