Abstract
The motivation for this review paper came from the developing countries where the economy is mostly dependent on agriculture and climate conditions. Based on current conditions and historical records, profitability in production farming depends on making a right and timely operational decision. Precision farming is a systematic program designed to maximize the productivity of agriculture by carefully tailoring the soil and crop management to meet the specific requirements in each field while preserving environmental quality. This review paper highlights the development of an automated irrigation system with portable wireless sensor networks and decision support methods to remotely measure the environmental parameters in an agriculture field. Radio satellite, mobile phones, sensors, internet-based communication, and microcontroller capture the ecological parameters such as soil moisture, temperature, humidity, and light intensity. The knowledge gained from the sensors is transferred directly to the cloud server by using IoT technology. Users from anywhere in the world can display them through an internet-enabled device. Development of sensor-based application in modern agriculture makes it cost-effective and potentially productive and increases the efficiency through precision agriculture farming. Different limitations have been reported in the previously reviewed publications like the shortage of power in the field that can be solved by using a solar panel that recharges the battery at the same time using electricity. Bluetooth application in the agriculture sector is mainly improved by design system optimization. Problems related to transmission and radio range frequency can be solved by using a power class upgraded antenna.
Highlights
Human civilization around the globe is preparing for a population explosion to hit a total of 10 billion inhabitants by 2050 (United Nations, 2017)
Is review is proposed to support aggressive water management for agricultural land. It aims to explain the different modern and sensor-based irrigation management techniques and track environmental parameters in the field of agriculture and provide warnings and information on current conditions to field managers while saving data for future reference in a database, which includes information collecting using remote sensor collection, wireless sensor network, target controlling, and data management scheme as shown in Figure 1. is review paper is based on sensorbased irrigation systems and modern technologies in the previous works; this study will be helpful to new researchers in this field to get more knowledge and provide more up to date and fill the gap through this review study
Several studies considered sensor-based irrigation is a modern-day irrigation activity that is practiced in a large area under entire controlledconditions, as it could eliminate the external environmental factors compared with the traditional irrigation activities. e GSM sensor-based irrigation control system with a gun sprinkler was declared in [32–34] with rain gun systems operated with the automatic microcontroller for crops requiring a more significant amount of water in the field
Summary
Human civilization around the globe is preparing for a population explosion to hit a total of 10 billion inhabitants by 2050 (United Nations, 2017). For sensors-based irrigation, different terminologies are used, i.e., Precision Farming, Variable Rate Technology (VRT), Smart Agriculture, Global Positioning Service (GPS), and Site-Specific Crop Management. Is review is proposed to support aggressive water management for agricultural land Is review paper is based on sensorbased irrigation systems and modern technologies in the previous works; this study will be helpful to new researchers in this field to get more knowledge and provide more up to date and fill the gap through this review study It aims to explain the different modern and sensor-based irrigation management techniques and track environmental parameters in the field of agriculture and provide warnings and information on current conditions to field managers while saving data for future reference in a database, which includes information collecting using remote sensor collection, wireless sensor network, target controlling, and data management scheme as shown in Figure 1. is review paper is based on sensorbased irrigation systems and modern technologies in the previous works; this study will be helpful to new researchers in this field to get more knowledge and provide more up to date and fill the gap through this review study
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