Abstract
In conventional farming the growth of the plant of interest is manually monitored by human senses, which needs high degree of sense perceptions and it always has a high quantum of error. If the farming is made automated with IoT applications, it can be done with utmost precision and accuracy. Human interventions can be minimized. Thus the efficiency of the cultivation can be enhanced and utilization of materials like water, fertilizers can be optimized. In IoT-based Smart Farming, a system is built for monitoring the crop field with the help of humidity, temperature, soil moisture sensors and automated the irrigation system. Internet of Things (IoT) is a collection of wireless sensors network finding their applications in the optimization of irrigation and administration of useful nutrients. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are major components of IoT. This irrigation method will avoid the wastage of water, save time and produce more yield. This Proposed method detects the fertilizers and pesticides spraying date and send the alert messages to the user using GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication) for better yield both quantitatively and qualitatively. Drip irrigation method is also adopted to use water sparingly and hence to avoid other problems like eutrophication and green house effect which are commonly caused by flooding of cultivation lands.
Highlights
India has approximately 43.7 million hectare land used for cultivation
The objectives of the proposed work are a) Development of very accurate sensors to detect the essential parameters in the cultivation land like soil moisture, soil temperature, air humidity. b)Development of software which would collect the pieces of information from the sensors and would apply that to the particular crop that is planted and would suggest the proper supply of materials. c)Development of wireless network to communicate the information obtained from the fore said two objectives to the former’s cell phone. d) Development of automated drip irrigation technology and fertilizer and pesticides management technology
We proposed a system for home agriculture using Internet of Things (IoT), which gathers data coming from systems or IoT devices and monitor the information and provide Drip Irrigation
Summary
India has approximately 43.7 million hectare land used for cultivation Maximum of this land is flood irrigated in the traditional method of agriculture. This farming method is a major reason for the country earning the dubious distinction of being the second largest producer of methane in the world. Smart farming is the urgent need of the nation to produce food of high quality and quantitatively sufficient to meet the requirement of the increasing population and decreasing cultivation area. It is a capital-intensive and hi-tech system. More over the optimization and application of the combination of wireless sensor network will result in the improved quality of the soil, increase in the productivity, stimulation in the plant growth, optimization of Revised Manuscript Received on February 05, 2020. * Correspondence Author
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