people and are mainly grown for higher income in
domestic and even abroad.
Over the past few years, IoT technology have
been introduced in almost every area of the modern
society. Among this areas are Smart Cities, Smart
Health Care, Smart Industry, Autonomous Vehicle,
Smart Agriculture, Precision Agriculture and others
(Shang et al., 2015). IoT is significantly considered in
the area of technology which gains appreciation and
attention from known and reputable industries like
Google, Apple, Samsung and Cisco (Vermesan and
Friess, 2014). The IoT is referred to as the Internet
of Objects that integrates several technologies such
as computers, smart phones, internet, sensors,
wireless communication technology and embedded
systems to complete a system that is capable
of data transmission without human intervention
(Mohammed and Ahmed, 2017).
As an emerging paradigm, the IoT has great
potential that can have a significant influence on
the future of the world (Stoces et al., 2016).
The application of the latest IoT technologies
in agriculture practice allows traditional ways of
farming to be changed fundamentally on every
aspect, paving way to a new agriculture pattern of
precision agriculture (Zhang et al., ). Iot devices
such as wireless sensor, connected weather stations,
cameras, and smart phones are capable of gathering
huge amount of environmental and crop performance
data which ranges from time series data from
sensors, to four-dimensional data from cameras and
to human interventions and observations. This data
are analyzed to filter out invalid data and compute
personalized crop recommendations for any specific
farm (Veena et al., 2018).
IoT technologies such as IoT devices provides
a better way of collecting, gathering, exchanging,
and transmitting data which absolutely delivers an
innovative way in data processing and intelligent
decision-making (Sreekantha and Kavya, 2017). The
Internet of Things provides the fundamental network
infrastructure to the physical and the digital worlds
through which smart objects, ranging from micro
sensors to heavy agricultural vehicles communicate
to each other (Bhuvaneswari and Porkodi, 2014). It is
capable of transforming the agricultural domain into
more efficient and productive farming and improves
the quality of life of farm workers by reducing
heavy labor and tedious tasks (Elkhodr et al., 2016).
At present, the internet protocol is mainly used in
communicating and interconnecting numerous smart
objects and various kinds of embedded devices and
technologies. The increase in the application and
distribution of smart objects and internet of things
significantly impact the human life in the future
generations (Rghioui, 2017).
Smart farming involves the use of the Internet of
Things (IoT) to provide solutions via the electronic
monitoring of crops, as well as related farm
conditions (Mohanraj et al., 2016). Understanding
and forecasting crop condition and performance
under extensive diversity of environmental, irrigation,
soil and fertilization is important to improve farm
production efficiency (Jayaraman et al., 2016).
Moreover, Iot-based smart farming allows farmers to
have better control over the process of growing crops
and making it more predictable and easy to manage
(Prathibha et al., 2017).
Consequently, the absolute integration of IoT
technologies into smart farming advanced the
agriculture to a new level by which the whole
agriculture industry is modernized with increased
productivity and profit. In a broader perspective, the
scope of smart agriculture which covers IoT improves
or solves critical issues such as drought response, crop
yield optimization, land and water management, and
pest control (Rajakumar et al., 2018). In connection
to this, the study aims to discuss the current issues and
challenges associated to high valued crops farming in
Alfonso Lista, Ifugao. It also covers the framework
that shall be design to address the current issues and
challenges associated to high valued crops farming in
Alfonso Lista, Ifugao.
2 METHODOLOGY
This study was qualitative in nature which aimed to
explore the current issues and challenges associated
to high valued crops farming in Alfonso Lista,
Ifugao and develop a framework that address each
of the issues and challenges. The primary method
of data collection was possibly made through
in-depth interviews with the Ifugao farmers, the
farm manager and farm workers of the Yao Jia
Xi Corporation – Alfonso Lista with their various
relevant functions which covers the scope of the
study. The researcher used unstructured and informal
interviews which positively allows a more flexible
and responsive discussion for both the researcher
and the respondents. Moreover, related articles were
also reviewed to allow a wide-ranging knowledge
on internet of things practices and applications.
A framework development process was used as a
guide during the development of the framework
which involves the four main phases: design
phase, implementation phase, instantiation phase and
maintenance phase.
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