Rural areas in South Africa and Zambia face a number of similar issues in the domains of agriculture, connectivity, water, transport, health and education et cetera, which calls for potentially similar solutions to be directed towards solving these issues. The intention of this research is to investigate the potential contributions of internet of things technologies (IoT) towards poverty reduction in these rural areas, in line with the needs identified in these communities and with emphasis on agriculture. The paper identifies examples of IoTs to mitigate the agricultural needs of these communities for the domains of crop farming, weather forecasting, wildlife management, forestry, livestock farming, market identification and rural financing.
Reference:
Dlodlo N and Kalezhi J. 2015. The internet of things in agriculture for sustainable rural development. In: International Conference on Emerging Trends in Networks and Computer Communications ETNCC 2015, Windhoek, Namibia, 17-20 May 2015
Dlodlo, N., & Kalezhi, J. (2015). The internet of things in agriculture for sustainable rural development. ETNCC 2015,. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8083
Dlodlo, N, and J Kalezhi. "The internet of things in agriculture for sustainable rural development." (2015): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8083
Dlodlo N, Kalezhi J, The internet of things in agriculture for sustainable rural development; ETNCC 2015,; 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8083 .
International Conference on Emerging Trends in Networks and Computer Communications ETNCC 2015, Windhoek, Namibia, 17-20 May 2015. Due to copyright restrictions, the attached PDF file only contains the abstract of the full text item. For access to the full text item, please consult the publisher's website.
