Abstract
The major challenge of irrigation farming is not having full control over the activities on the farmland and its unpredictable environment factors which in most cases, if not well managed, brings about low agricultural productivity. In this paper, as against the traditional manual control procedures which are time consuming, labor expensive, and most time led to taking bad key decisions concerning the three important environmental factors vis: temperature, humidity, and moisture of the farmland, we presents the design and implementation of farm management support system using WSN to sense and sent SMS about these three important farm field parameters to farmers using ATMEGA 328 controller. The system is designed to allow remote tracking of the parameters via an IoT cloud computing platform (ThingSpeak) and perform some Statistical analysis like temperature humidity variation and difference at a particular point in time on the sensed data using matlab. The developed system is scalable to incorporate the tracking of many other parameters and actions such as soil fertility, required soil nutrient, or trigger actions such as releasing water valve or activate alarming unit if certain parameter/s cross defined threshold. This research shows the importance of using wireless sensor network in precision farm field as the system solves the problem of continuous monitoring of data acquisition.
Highlights
With the dwelling oil revenue Nigerian government had shifted it priorities to agriculture, because agriculture is considered to be the sector of the economy that has the capacity to give jobs to millions of people
Many programs such as Growth Enhancement Support Scheme (GES), Anchor Brower’s Program (ABP), Rural Finance Institutions Building Program (RUFIN), The Nigeria Incentive-Base and Risk-Sharing for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) etc. are currently run by federal ministry of agriculture, CBN, States governments, in order to encourage the people to venture into agriculture
With these developmental plans of the government, modern agricultural technology obtainable in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technology can be utilize to improve the entire farm management efficiency and aid in decision making for better production yield in crop quality, assist in mitigating disaster and flooding risk using smart metering to monitor water flow, leakages and pollution extent in dams, river and other water sources, optimize precision in applying the right amount of farm inputs such as water, fertilizer, pesticides at the right location and at the right time, the technology can further help in keeping track of soil moisture, temperature, humidity and entire climate change on site and from meteorological network center
Summary
With the dwelling oil revenue Nigerian government had shifted it priorities to agriculture, because agriculture is considered to be the sector of the economy that has the capacity to give jobs to millions of people. Many programs such as Growth Enhancement Support Scheme (GES), Anchor Brower’s Program (ABP), Rural Finance Institutions Building Program (RUFIN), The Nigeria Incentive-Base and Risk-Sharing for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) etc. With these developmental plans of the government, modern agricultural technology obtainable in WSN technology can be utilize to improve the entire farm management efficiency and aid in decision making for better production yield in crop quality, assist in mitigating disaster and flooding risk using smart metering to monitor water flow, leakages and pollution extent in dams, river and other water sources, optimize precision in applying the right amount of farm inputs such as water, fertilizer, pesticides at the right location and at the right time, the technology can further help in keeping track of soil moisture, temperature, humidity and entire climate change on site and from meteorological network center
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