Analytics vidhya, august 26, 2016

6. IoT in agriculture
With the continous increase in world’s population, demand for food supply is extremely raised. Governments are helping farmers to use advanced techniques and research to increase food production. Smart farming is one of the fastest growing field in IoT.
Farmers are using meaningful insights from the data to yield better return on investment. Sensing for soil moisture and nutrients, controlling water usage for plant growth and determining custom fertilizer are some simple uses of IoT.
If you are curious, the video below explains further about this concept.
Read more  to know the latest about IoT in agriculture.
7.Smart Retail
The potential of IoT in the retail sector is enormous. IoT provides an opportunity to retailers to connect with the customers to enhance the in-store experience.
Smartphones will be the way for retailers to remain connected with their consumers even out of store. Interacting through Smartphones and using Beacon technology can help retailers serve their consumers better. They can also track consumers path through a store and improve store layout and place premium products in high traffic areas.
Watch this video to find out how connected retail will make your life easier.
Read more to know the latest technology changing the face of retail.
8.Energy Engagement
Power grids of the future will not only be smart enough but also highly reliable. Smart grid concept is becoming very popular all over world.
The basic idea behind the smart grids is to collect data in an automated fashion and analyze the behavior or electricity consumers and suppliers for improving efficiency as well as economics of electricity use.
Smart Grids will also be able to detect sources of power outages more quickly and at individual household levels like near by solar panel, making possible distributed energy system.
Here’s a video to explain how smart grid operates.
Read more to know the power of IoT in energy saving.