Today’s agriculture faces serious structural challenges such as an ageing population, urbanisation, labour shortages, and rising operational costs. For farmers, the high upfront costs of adopting new technologies remain a major barrier. To overcome these issues and ensure the sustainability of future agriculture, a shift toward advanced, third-generation smart farming systems is essential.

Thanks to rapid developments in IoT, big data, and artificial intelligence (AI), digital agriculture is evolving quickly. These technologies are already driving precision control and productivity in crop-based smart farms. However, in livestock farming—especially poultry management—smart technologies are still at an early stage, often limited to 1.5-generation systems.

To move toward a fully integrated, third-generation poultry smart farm, we must build on existing systems by standardising data, collecting real-time environmental information, and developing intelligent control algorithms.