LoRa-Based Sensing Network Setup and IoT Integration for Smart Agricultural Management

Abstract

Multi-Intelligent control system (MICS) development and its application handling become crucial day by day. With the emerging technology of Internet of Things (IoT), smart agriculture system has become a new trend in the agriculture field. Our proposed work uses multi-sensing applications, use of Internet of Things (IoT), smart communication, power optimization, water management, and smart security compatible with expected solutions of real time challenges in the irrigation sector and helps to make it much more productive and efficient. Introduction of LoRa Technology can be considered as a revolution in the field of IoT. LoRa Technology in the field of IoT can perform very-long range transmission with low power battery consumption. Furthermore, we are proposing a Generic MICS architecture to integrate LoRa capability in IoT-based applications for enhanced performance. Our proposed work has described IoT as a tool to integrate with the series of multifunctional sensors, microcontrollers, output devices, and data relay using LoRa mesh networking within the system. LoRa mesh networking is found with the best performance for long-range communication and able to achieve good Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR) up to 92% as compared to star network topology which is limited to 58.7% of PDR. The wireless architecture of the network layer is being designed in a way to detect the leakage of water, soil, security, and reservoir water level through the sensors interfaced with it. The proposed system has other features like cost proficiency, power optimization, reliable wireless networking, remote data accessing, and capability to reduce water wastage.KeywordsIoTLoraSensor networkMQTTGSMProgrammable boardsWater managementCommunication