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Indian Mobile Agricultural Services Using Big Data and Internet of Things (IoT)

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Mobile services are now widely available to Indian farmers and other agriculture stakeholders. These services are providing a range of functionality from access to market prices and climate services. This paper presents an overview of various services available as mobile apps which are using Big Data and IoT technologies. This paper provides findings from a survey of mobile application services which are available to India agricultural sector stakeholders. The mobile applications where categorized in various service types and assessments made of the type of functionality provided and proportion of apps providing each service category. The paper also addresses the strengths and weaknesses of these services and draw conclusion sand the future trends in the availability of these mobile app services.

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The authors acknowledge the Centre for Environmental Management, and the School of Science at Edith Cowan University for partial funding for Dr. Leisa Armstrong to attend the WICT 2017 conference.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

    Pallavi Chatuphale & Leisa Armstrong

  2. School of Science, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia

    Leisa Armstrong

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  3. Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka , Durian Tunggal, Melaka, Malaysia

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Chatuphale, P., Armstrong, L. (2018). Indian Mobile Agricultural Services Using Big Data and Internet of Things (IoT). In: Abraham, A., Muhuri, P., Muda, A., Gandhi, N. (eds) Intelligent Systems Design and Applications. ISDA 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 736. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76348-4_99

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