An IoT Based Smart Organic Drip Fertigation System for Eco-Friendly Agriculture using SVM Classifier and Thing Speak

Abstract

In agriculture, large-scale farming and feeding of effective organic nutrients to plants, in wide-ranging irrigation field becomes a serious scenario faced by majority of sectors in present agricultural system. In present, adapting the method of irrigation and continuous monitoring of irrigation system in agricultural field is becoming difficult for the farmers in adverse situations. The main intention of this paper is to feed the crops with organic nutrient content and to automate the continuous monitoring of water level, temperature, salt content present in water using Internet of Things (IoT). An IOT based Organic Drip Fertigation system mainly helps the farmers to automatically sense the difficulties that may occur due to the presence of salt content in water also automates fertigation method (the usage of organic nutrients) to make comparatively high yield than the ordinary methods. As a result, the proposed system helps in reducing soil erosion as only the required nutrients are injected via the drip system in order to reduce the usage of chemical fertilizers. In this paper, we use Support Vector Machine (SVM) to classify three (Temperature, Ph, Flow) feature vectors. The classification results will predict whether the obtained data is normal or abnormal and explore the accuracy of classification prediction by using SVM. Finally, the classification result obtained by applying SVM is uploaded to the ThingSpeak cloud.