A Glance at the Agriculture of the Future: Farm Automation

Technological advances are bringing change to a great number of industries, and the agriculture industry is no exception. Farms are slowly starting to see increased adoption of practices based on technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), and robotics. The adoption of such technologies into the traditional farming practices as we know them is referred to as smart farming or farm automation. Let's have a look at what farm automation is exactly and how it can help farmers tackle a number of challenges in today's agricultural sector. Farm automation specifically focuses on applying data and information technologies for the optimization of production processes of complex farming systems as well as the quality of the food.