Abstract: With popularization and application of internet of things（IoT）, artificial intelligence, and other technologies in agricultural field, construction of smart orchards has provided new ideas and methods for addressing issues such as low efficiency and shortage of labor force in traditional orchard production models．This transformation promoted a shift in China's fruit production towards intelligence and digitalization．A review of existing studies mainly focused on aspects of environmental monitoring, intelligent management, and platform visualization, key technologies and research of smart orchard development were organized, to provide a comprehensive analytical framework for intelligent development of fruit industry, and to propose constructive development strategies for issues still existing in smart orchard development．