How Wireless Will Change Agriculture

At the dawn of the 21 st century, there is a wireless revolution. Yet, this revolution appears to be conspicuously absent in agriculture despite technological advances which make it conceivable to build and deploy wireless sensor and control networks which would radically improve farm efficiencies. This is because current wireless technologies are too expensive, too unreliable or too complicated for the farm. However, that is about to change because of the rapid pace of development in certain sectors of internet communications. It is the opinion of the authors that wireless networks may offer the same type of quantum leap forward for farming that GPS provided during the past decade. Internet networks are set to eclipse the capabilities of all previous forms of distance communication and will provide the communications backbone for farms in the future