Chapter 5 IoT technologies in the food supply chain Sandeep Jagtap¹, Linh Duong 2 , Hana Trollman 3 , Farah Bader 3 , Guillermo Garcia-Garcia 4 , George Skouteris 5 , Jie Li 6 , Pankaj Pathare 7 , Wayne Martindale 2 , Mark Swainson 2 , Shahin Rahimifard 3 1 Sustainable Manufacturing Systems Centre, School of Aerospace, Transport & Manufacturing, Cranfield University, UK. 2 The National Centre for Food Manufacturing, University of Lincoln, Holbeach, UK. 3 Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK. 4 Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. 5 HZDR, Dresden, Germany. 6 Donghua University, China. 7 Department of Soils, Water & Agricultural Engineering, College of Agricultural & Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. Abstract: Over the past few years, there has been growing research interest in the Internet of Things (IoT). Both academics and industrialists have developed and deployed IoT-based applications for transparency and efficiency within the food sector. Some of the IoT applications that have been successfully implemented are related to tracking, tracing and monitoring food products and other resources, which contributed to improved efficiency as well as better traceability. This chapter focuses on the utilization of IoT technologies in the food supply chain (FSC) specifically post-farm gate until food reaches the retailer’s shelves. It presents IoT applications that have been successfully developed and deployed in FSCs, the pros and cons of IoT implementation and finally, it describes future trends such as elements of Industry 4.0, blockchain, intelligent packaging, and artificial intelligence. Keywords: Internet of Things, Food Supply Chain, Industry 4.0, Big data analytics, Blockchain 1. Overview of the Internet of Things FSCs are under tremendous pressure to improve not only their revenues but also their overall sustainability as well as supply chain efficiencies. At the same time, they aim to keep their costs low – a difficult task if investments to improve their sustainability performance and efficiencies are needed. However, the advent of digitization and its related technologies is helping businesses to overcome this difficult task. Particularly, FSCs have seen the coming