Abstract

Abstract— Agriculture plays a major role in the GDP of the country specially countries like India. It is observed that 70% of India’s population depends on agriculture for employment. As India is the second largest country in the growth of population so it is necessary to increase the rate of production of agriculture to meet the population food consumption rate. IoT as a technology helps the farmers to fight with most of the agriculture problems. One such problem is irrigation. This paper will discuss about the automation of irrigation on the basis Internet Of Things with microcontrollers, sensors and Human Machine Interface that will minimize the number of workers in a crop field, control and save water and electricity, Increase agricultural production using minimal usage of water, minimize manual intervention in watering operations which also preserves plants from fungi. Keywords— Internet of Things, Automation, Irrigation, Sensors, Microcontroller

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