Review Review of IoT applications in agro-industrial and environmental fields Jesús Martín Talavera a , Luis Eduardo Tobón b , Jairo Alejandro Gómez b,⇑ , María Alejandra Culman a , Juan Manuel Aranda c , Diana Teresa Parra a , Luis Alfredo Quiroz b , Adolfo Hoyos b , Luis Ernesto Garreta b a Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, Avenida 42 No. 48-11, Bucaramanga, Colombia b Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Calle 18 No. 118-250, Cali, Colombia c Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Carrera 7 No. 40-62, Bogotá D.C, Colombia article info Article history: Received 28 March 2017 Received in revised form 26 July 2017 Accepted 9 September 2017 Keywords: Internet of things IoT Agro-industry Environmental monitoring Systematic literature review abstract This paper reviews agro-industrial and environmental applications that are using Internet of Things (IoT). It is motivated by the need to identify application areas, trends, architectures and open challenges in these two fields. The underlying survey was developed following a systematic literature review using academic documents written in English and published in peer-reviewed venues from 2006 to 2016. Selected references were clustered into four application domains corresponding to: monitoring, control, logistics, and prediction. Implementation-specific details from each selected reference were compiled to create usage distributions of sensors, actuators, power sources, edge computing modules, communication technologies, storage solutions, and visualization strategies. Finally, the results from the review were compiled into an IoT architecture that represents a wide range of current solutions in agro-industrial and environmental fields. Ó 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Contents 1. Introduction ......................................................................................................... 284 2. Planning ............................................................................................................ 284 3. Conduction .......................................................................................................... 285 4. Results.............................................................................................................. 286 4.1. Answer to the first research question ............................................................................... 286 4.2. Answer to the second research question ............................................................................. 289 5. Recent works ........................................................................................................ 292 5.1. Communications ................................................................................................ 292 5.2. Energy management ............................................................................................. 292 5.3. Monitoring ..................................................................................................... 293 5.4. Logistics ....................................................................................................... 293 6. Discussion ........................................................................................................... 293 6.1. Limitations and open challenges ................................................................................... 293 6.2. Proposed architecture ............................................................................................ 295 7. Conclusions .......................................................................................................... 295 Acknowledgements ................................................................................................... 295 References .......................................................................................................... 295 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2017.09.015 0168-1699/Ó 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding author at: Center of Excellence and Appropriation on Internet of Things, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Calle 18 No. 118-250, Cali, Colombia. E-mail addresses: jtalavera@unab.edu.co (J.M. Talavera), letobon@javerianacali.edu.co (L.E. Tobón), jairoalejandro.gomez@javerianacali.edu.co (J.A. Gómez), mculman@ unab.edu.co (M.A. Culman), juan-aranda@javeriana.edu.co (J.M. Aranda), dparra486@unab.edu.co (D.T. Parra), laquiroz@javerianacali.edu.co (L.A. Quiroz), adolfo. hoyos@javerianacali.edu.co (A. Hoyos), luis.garreta@javerianacali.edu.co (L.E. Garreta). Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 142 (2017) 283–297 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Computers and Electronics in Agriculture journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/compag