An Agricultural Irrigatıon Management System Based on the Internet of Things With MQTT Protocol

Abstract

There are several factors upon which the yield of a crop depends. Water, external temperature, humidity, the fertility of the soil, etc. Among these, water is a vital and scarce resource, and thereby more human attention is needed. When and how to water the plants are the two important things to consider in agricultural irrigation! Modernizing agriculture with the help of smart technologies is a promising solution. This project presents an automated irrigation system for agriculture-based out of several low-cost sensors that monitor and maintain the soil moisture based on real-time data from the field with very low form factor compared to the existing systems. This automated system is a combination of low-cost hardware, IoT, and cloud server. The ESP8266 MCU installed in the field will collect all the sensor data from the crops and send it to the cloud server, thingspeak, for storage via Wi-Fi. The farmers can monitor the stored or real-time data on their mobile or in a web portal. They can also check the status of the pump at any time from anywhere. The amount of moisture required for a specific type of crop is predetermined and saved in the system thereby human presence can be decreased and can effectively make the system automated.