Internet of Things (IoT) based Smart Agriculture Aiming to Achieve Sustainable Goals

Despite the fact, a handful of scholars have endorsed the Internet of Things (IoT) as an effective transformative tool for shifting traditional farming to smart farming, relatively little study has addressed the enabling role of smart agriculture in achieving sustainable agriculture and green climate. Researchers are more focused on technological invention and model introduction rather than discussing societal or global development goals. Sustainable development goals (SDGs) designed by United Nations (UN), therefore demand discussions as SDGs targets have a closer implication of technology. To fill this gap, in this study a model of smart agriculture is developed and centring the model we investigated how the model addresses SDGs targets. The investigation suggests that smart agriculture supports targets mentioned in Goal 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12 of SDG. This research is very important, both for developing and developed nations since most of the nations are moving more towards industrialization and aiming to achieve the SDG goals This research is expected to provide a path to the IT practitioners, governments and developing agencies on how technological intervention can provide a more sustainable agricultural world.