Abstract
IoT is a communal association of things or equipment that can interact with each other with the help of an internet connection. IoT services play an imperative responsibility in the industry of agriculture, which can feed 10 billion people worldwide by 2050. Irrigation systems are a backbone of agriculture that help to reduce wastage of water and decide the effective usage of water according to the specific crop and thereby increase the crop yield. In this paper, an irrigation system is developed to supervise the paddy crop field using sensors (soil moisture sensor, pH sensor, and flow sensor), and this irrigation system works based on the concept of IoT, so it is known as intelligent irrigation system (IIS). The soil condition data from sensors are sent to a web server database using wireless transmission to decide how much water needed. In the proposed server database, the data is saved, and the authors use the concept of a dashboard; it operates via http protocol to control water pump of farmland. The condition of soil is monitored based on the parameter of soil-like moisture and water flow amount using the IoT, which is capable to turn on/off water pumps. The used dashboard is developed using open source free server, namely “000webhost.” This paper has considered the paddy crop that is rice because water is essential for growth and development of rice plants. The experimental results show this system is more proficient than the existing conventional and unadventurous irrigation approach.
Highlights
Agriculture is considered as the foundation of human life and only resource of food granule
An irrigation system is developed to supervise the paddy crop field using sensors, and this irrigation system works based on the concept of Internet of Things (IoT), so it is known as intelligent irrigation system (IIS)
The experimental results of proposed IIS for rice crop monitoring using IoT communication are discussed, and the efficiency of the proposed work is compared with existing work (Rani et al, 2020)
Summary
Agriculture is considered as the foundation of human life and only resource of food granule. Innovative tools emerge, bringing automated, unremitting, and spontaneous features for communication through internet applications (Sharma & Kumar, 2020). It provides a large number of employment opportunities to the nation’s population. In this research, automated irrigation control system is developed which can regulate the water supply with the internet through IoT communication system. With this system, the status of paddy crop filed can be monitored from any location.
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