Abstract
Abstract Agriculture is one of the key enabler for the economic development of India that accounts for one third of nation's income. Due to the problems that agriculture industry is facing, there is a need to introduce automation in agriculture that improves the efficiency. This paper presents the implementation of Automated Motor Starter Unit (AMSU) for smart farming applicable to Indian scenario. In addition, current technologies and attempts in smart farming are reviewed and discussed. More than 90% of Indian farmers have been using motors for their farm fields which are controlled by single phase or three phase power supplies. The AMSU has been designed to turn on/off motor in the farm field using mobile phone having cellular network from any place. The AMSU is selected to increase the operation efficiency by minimizing the manual operation of motors for which farmer need to go to the farm field.
Highlights
Agriculture is the main source of food grains and plays an important role in the economic development of agricultural countries
We present an low cost Terrestrial Wireless Sensor Network (TWSN) implementation of Automated Motor Starter Unit (AMSU) that monitors the water level in well and sends Short Message Service (SMS) to farmer’s mobile using Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM), depending on the status of the water level farmer can turn on/off motor using his mobile by sending SMS or giving a missed call to the number in the AMSU
AMSU is installed at the field level by connecting it to the Control Unit (CU) which is already connected to the three phase or single phase motor in the field
Summary
Agriculture is the main source of food grains and plays an important role in the economic development of agricultural countries. Income generated from agriculture accounts for the one third of nation’s capital [1, 2] This is one side of the coin, the other side contain several problems that decreases the production yield due to inadequate rainfalls, uncertainty in power supply, and traditional methods followed by farmers. In many parts of the country, due to inadequate rainfalls the irrigation systems were developed that stores the water during heavy rainfall and releases to the farm field for the crop growth whenever required using single phase or three phase motors that need to be operated manually by farmer. In general WSN applications in agriculture domain consist of sensor nodes, gateway that collects the data and sends to cloud for processing. Such applications are in demand and impose challenges in real time implementation. Implementation of WSN for monitoring paddy crop [14] weed using raspberry pi and bluetooth
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