---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 19068"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "19068"
heading: "Advancing IoT for Precision Agriculture Capabilities Act"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/19068"
units:
  - "Chapter 163 — Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation"
  - "Subchapter III — National Science Foundation for the Future"
  - "Part E — Fundamental Research"
---

# §19068. Advancing IoT for Precision Agriculture Capabilities Act

- (a) **Short title—** This section may be cited as the “Advancing IoT for Precision Agriculture Act of 2021”.
- (b) **Purpose—** It is the purpose of this section to promote scientific research and development opportunities for connected technologies that advance precision agriculture capabilities.
- (c) **Foundation directive on agricultural sensor research—** In making awards under the sensor systems and networked systems programs of the [Foundation](/usc/42/18901.md?p=11), the [Director](/usc/42/18921.md?p=1) shall include in consideration of portfolio balance research and development on sensor connectivity in environments of intermittent connectivity and intermittent computation—
  - (1) to improve the reliable use of advance sensing systems in rural and agricultural areas; and
  - (2) that considers—
    - (A) direct gateway access for locally stored data;
    - (B) attenuation of signal transmission;
    - (C) loss of signal transmission; and
    - (D) at-scale performance for wireless power.
- (d) **Omitted—**
- (e) **GAO review—** Not later than 18 months after August 9, 2022, the Comptroller General of the United States shall provide—
  - (1) a technology assessment of precision agriculture technologies, such as the existing use of—
    - (A) sensors, scanners, radio-frequency identification, and related technologies that can monitor soil properties, irrigation conditions, and plant physiology;
    - (B) sensors, scanners, radio-frequency identification, and related technologies that can monitor livestock activity and health;
    - (C) network connectivity and wireless communications that can securely support digital agriculture technologies in rural and remote areas;
    - (D) aerial imagery generated by satellites or unmanned aerial vehicles;
    - (E) ground-based robotics;
    - (F) control systems design and connectivity, such as smart irrigation control systems;
    - (G) Global Positioning System-based applications; and
    - (H) data management software and advanced analytics that can assist decision making and improve agricultural outcomes; and
  - (2) a review of Federal programs that provide support for precision agriculture research, development, adoption, education, or training, in existence on August 9, 2022.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–167, div. B, title III, § 10361, Aug. 9, 2022, 136 Stat. 1567.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is comprised of section 10361 of Pub. L. 117–167. Subsec. (d) of section 10361 of Pub. L. 117–167 amended section 1862i of this title.