II. DESIGN OF CONNECTED FARMS The connected farm is a new type of automated farming system developed using IoT infrastructure. As shown in Figure 1, the connected farm system has three main components, i.e., connected IoT devices including monitoring sensors and controllers, IoT gateway (called &Cube), and IoT service platform (called Mobius). In connected farms, there are physical sensors (e.g., temperature, humidity, CO2, illumination) and controllers (e.g., sprinkler, LED lights, air conditioner, heater) for monitoring and controlling the environmental conditions of the farm. All the sensors and controllers are connected with the IoT gateways in turn connected with the IoT service platform. End users (i.e., farmers) can interact with the connected farm for monitoring its environmental conditions or triggering some farming utilities.