Automated Smart Irrigation System using IoT with Sensor Parameter

Abstract

In the field of agriculture, precision agriculture is one of the most crucial aspects of countries with enormous populations, fertile land and water resources. Incorporation of smart irrigation will go a long way in enabling the countries to effectively and efficiently use the available water, further using the extra water for the barren lands. In this paper, an IoT-based smart irrigation system is used for building a smart Management device that efficiently uses the available water. The purpose of this Management device is to automatically manage time, avoid under-irrigation and over-irrigation issues, streamline water consumption, distribution and manage the water reserves. This device also employs the open-source clouds, fusion centers, sinks and field-deployed sensors for smart irrigation purposes. The performance is compared with that of other existing methodologies in terms of packet delivery ratio, packets sent to destination, network stability period and energy consumption. Based on the observations of the experimental results, it is identified that the proposed management device saves up to thirty percent of the energy and is seen to offer higher network stability. The proposed work can be used in various irrigation models like lateral move irrigation, surface irrigation, sprinkler irrigation and drip irrigation. The advantage of this management system is that it can be used in third-world countries where only 2G and 3G are available to develop their small farms.