Abstract
Agriculture industry has been evolving for centuries.
Currently, the technological development of Internet
oriented farming tools allows to increase the productivity and
efficiency of this sector. Many of the already available tools
and applications require high bandwidth in both directions,
upstream and downstream connection. The main constraint
is that farms are naturally located in rural areas where the
required access broadband data rates are not available. This
paper studies the broadband divide in relation to the Danish
agricultural sector. Results show how there is an important
difference between the broadband availability for farms and the
rest of the households/buildings the country. This divide may
be slowing down the potential technological development of
the farming industry, in order to keep their competitiveness in
the market. Therefore, broadband development in rural areas
could be one of the points to focus in a near future broadband
access plans.
Currently, the technological development of Internet
oriented farming tools allows to increase the productivity and
efficiency of this sector. Many of the already available tools
and applications require high bandwidth in both directions,
upstream and downstream connection. The main constraint
is that farms are naturally located in rural areas where the
required access broadband data rates are not available. This
paper studies the broadband divide in relation to the Danish
agricultural sector. Results show how there is an important
difference between the broadband availability for farms and the
rest of the households/buildings the country. This divide may
be slowing down the potential technological development of
the farming industry, in order to keep their competitiveness in
the market. Therefore, broadband development in rural areas
could be one of the points to focus in a near future broadband
access plans.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 2013 27th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (WAINA) |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Publication date | 2013 |
| Pages | 578 - 582 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4673-6239-9 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-0-7695-4952-1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
| Event | 2013 27th International Conference onAdvanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (WAINA) - Barcalona, Spain Duration: 25 Mar 2013 → 28 Mar 2013 |
Conference
| Conference | 2013 27th International Conference onAdvanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (WAINA) |
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| Country/Territory | Spain |
| City | Barcalona |
| Period | 25/03/2013 → 28/03/2013 |
| Series | Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications |
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| ISSN | 1550-445X |
Keywords
- Broadband Divide
- ICT in Agriculture
- Rural Access