Tutorial C6: Big Data in Smart Farming

1. What is Smart Farming?

2. What is Precision Agriculture?
3. Differentiate Smart Farming versus Precision Agriculture.
4. What will both smart machines and sensors cropping produce? How does this come about?
5. Explain how big data can help in agriculture?
6. Briefly explain with examples how big data will help farmers with their crops and business?
7. What are the stages undergone by produce after harvest?
8. Explain the stages involved by produce after harvest?
9. Explain how would these stages benefit with the help of technologies based on AI and IoT?
10. Describe with example 4 Smart Farming Technologies that could be useful to farmers.
11. Describe briefly the uses of big data in smart farming.
12. State 4 top use cases with brief explanation for big data on the farm
13. Explain how big data analytics are used in farming
14. What are the challenges faced with big data?
15. Identify the data chain of big data applications by Chen et al.
16. State the 3 categories of data generation
17. Briefly explained the 3 categories of data generation.
18. Compare and contrast the different element of Smart Farming in adopting Big Data applications
in relation to the four main key farming sectors namely Arable, Livestock, Horticulture and
Fishery.
19. What are the key areas of change leading from big data analysis?
20. Compare and contrast the big data applications driven by push-pull mechanisms.
21. Where can value-added services with data extraction help to improve farming practices?
22. Differentiate between data security and data privacy.
23. Explain briefly the different data stages of big data privacy lifecycle in smart farming.
24. There are several privacy-preserving technologies in Smart Farming. Briefly explain what they
are.
25. State what are the privacy concerns on data sharing practices.
26. Discuss the challenges and future research direction for big data in smart farming.