Using Internet of Things to Improve Food Safety and Quality Control

214 PROGRESS REPORT TEMPLATE
NAME / ID
ENGL 214-XX
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I. INTRODUCTION
TITLE 
 

 Using the Internet of Things to Improve Food Safety and Quality Control

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM 
Identify the problem that your report will address. (1-2 sentences) 
 

 WHO reports that 600 million people are taken ill every year because of food safety and quality control issues. As the reported food safety incidents worldwide continue to rise, it has become prudent to find alternatives to ensure food safety is guaranteed and the quality control process is improved.

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE 
What does your report intend to do? 
(One sentence) 
 

 The purpose of this report is to argue that there are food safety concerns due to several serious food safety incidents.

SCOPE / AUDIENCE 
Explicitly state the scope of your report.  Identify the intended readership of your report. 
(1-2 sentences) 
 
 

 The intended readership of this report is quite wide and is inclusive of international bodies like WHO, governments, private companies in the food industry, and every other person in the world. Food safety and quality control concerns everyone and hence the inclusion of everyone.

II. SOURCE EVALUATIONS
ENGLISH 214SOURCE EVALUATION # 1
NAME: Ali Al-AliID: 201012340SEC/SN: 99 / 28
REPORT TITLE (Provisional): Using the Internet of Things to Improve Food Safety and Quality Control
1. THE SOURCE
How long is your source?48 pages.
How did you find the source?:I typed in “Using IoT to enhance food safety” into the Goodloe search
engine.
Write a complete APA reference for your source:
García, L., Parra, L., Jimenez, J. M., Lloret, J., & Lorenz, P. (2020). IoT-based smart irrigation systems: An overview on the recent trends on sensors and IoT systems for irrigation in precision agriculture. Sensors, 20(4), 1042.
2. SUMMARY OF THE SOURCE
In about100 words, summarize the main points of your source.
This article presents a survey demonstrating the current intelligent irrigation systems employed to deal with water scarcity. The authors demonstrate that the recent advances in the Internet of Things (IoT) and Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) are critical in addressing the challenge of water scarcity. The paper focuses on four major areas. Water management analyzes and presents various techniques for managing water in irrigation. Soil monitoring includes IoT monitoring systems. Weather monitoring presents an overview of the weather parameters monitored using IoT systems. Lastly, sensor networks examine the technologies used in communication and the sensors employed. The paper concludes by examining the challenges and best practices for implementing the outlined systems.
3. EVALUATION:
In about 100 words, explain why you chose this source for your report.
Relevance: connect relevant parts of the source with your outline.
Article: what level is it? How up-to-date is the information?
Publication / website / author: are they reputable, unbiased and knowledgeable?
The article contains informat...