Abstract
Precision agriculture is now essential in today’s world, especially for countries with limited water resources, fertile land, and enormous population. Smart irrigation systems can help countries efficiently utilize fresh water and use the excess water for barren lands. Smart water management platform (SWAMP) is an IoT-based smart irrigation project designed for efficient freshwater utilization in agriculture. The primary aim of SWAMP is to auto manage water reserves, distribution, and consumption of various levels, avoid over-irrigation and under-irrigation problems, and auto manage time to maximize production. This research proposed an energy-efficient water management platform (EEWMP), an improved version of SWAMP. EEWMP is an IoT-based smart irrigation system that uses field-deployed sensors, sinks, fusion centres, and open-source clouds. Both models’ performance is evaluated in energy consumption, network stability period, packet sent to destination, and packet delivery ratio. The experimental results show that EEWMP consumes 30% less energy and increases network stability twice than SWAMP. EEWMP can be used in different irrigation models such as drip irrigation, sprinkler irrigation, surface irrigation, and lateral move irrigation with subtle alterations. Moreover, it can also be used in small farms of third-world countries with their existing communication infrastructures such as 2G or 3G.
Highlights
Water is an essential need for living things, and agriculture is the largest consumer of fresh water in the world with 70% consumption [1]
We proposed an IoT-based smart and energy-efficient irrigation system, efficient water management platform (EEWMP). e proposed EEWMP system’s performance is compared with the Smart water management platform (SWAMP) model using simulation conducted in a MATLAB environment. e models’ performance is evaluated in energy consumption, network stability period, packet sent to destination, and packet delivery ratio
At 1100 seconds, the SWAMP network is entirely exhausted, whereas EEWMP has more than 30% energy left at the same time
Summary
Water is an essential need for living things, and agriculture is the largest consumer of fresh water in the world with 70% consumption [1]. The population growth has estimated to meet 10 billion in the twenty-first century. Erefore, smart water management systems are essential to meet future demands of fresh water and food security. E irrigation system plays an essential role in crop yield as overirrigation and under-irrigation may significantly affect productivity and result in power and water wastage [4]. On the other hand, is an intelligent method that can be used to avoid the wastage of power and water while increasing productivity. The IoT is efficiently utilized in many subdomains such as precision farming [8], smart crop monitoring [9], soil quality [10], smart irrigation systems [11, 12], and many others
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