Multi-utility Agricultural IoT based Robot for Various Agricultural Activities

Abstract

With the availability of various economical sensors and the implementation of Internet-of-Things (IoT), agriculture industry is moving towards more precise, data centric and smarter than ever. Almost every industrial domain has been resigned, including smart agriculture, with the rapid emergence of IoT based technologies with the aid of economical sensor technology. The use of agricultural robots in agriculture field is increasing to cover the necessity ever increasing population with static piece of land. In this work, a multi-utility agricultural IoT based robot has been proposed for performing various agricultural activities. It provides control of the agricultural activities remotely through VLAN and also through cloud network (be it Server based or Serverless), i.e. a hybrid control model. The proposed method requires minimal human labor to perform various farming activities. The end user can control the machine in the field and all agricultural activities can be performed remotely from anywhere with the help of Android application. Three modes of operation are supported, manual, semi-automatic and automated. The proposed system is to be controlled and trained for few days manually so that it gains accuracy in the path being followed to perform the task. Proposed system has solar powered system as the primary source of energy and Lithium-ion polymer battery for battery backup support. Anti-theft mechanism is provided with the help of GSM module.