Smart Agricultural Practices Using IoT and Data Analytics
- March 31, 2019
- Posted by: RSIS
- Category: Electrical and Electronics Engineering
International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume VI, Issue III, March 2019 | ISSN 2321–2705
Smart Agricultural Practices Using IoT and Data Analytics
Ayyappa Srinivasan M G1, Praveen Periyasamy2, Rogan3
1Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, St. Mother Theresa Engineering College, Tuticorin, India
2,3UG students, Electrical Engineering Department, St. Mother Theresa Engineering College, Tuticorin, India
Abstract- There is a paradigm shift taking place in agricultural sector towards smart agricultural practices. This is due to the reducing agricultural resources. So, IoT has been used started to be used as a tool to improve the productivity in the agriculture sector. The IoT is the combination of several technologies such as WSN, radio frequency identification, cloud computing, middleware systems and end-user applications. In this paper, an attempt has been made to find the ways to attain most benefits from IoT in the field of agriculture. DA has also been integrated so as to attain maximum efficiency. Also this work tries to make this combination towards smart agriculture.
Key Words- IoT, Data Analytics, Smart agriculture
I. INTRODUCTION
IoT is finding applications in many areas such as medicine, smart-home, smart city and others. IoT is a system with computing devices, digital and mechanical machines all of which have unique identifiers to transfer the data over a network. IoT makes better automation by using internet as a medium[1].The agriculture has been identified as a potential area for usage of IoT along with data analytics for increase in food production [2].It is expected that more farmers will use IoT combined with data analytics to enhance food production in the coming years.[3].
For smart agriculture purpose, the farmers have been using Wireless sensor networks till now. These sensors have been used mainly for automatic control of farming machines, onitoring the eco system[4][5].With the help of WSN it has been seen that food production has been increased manifold. However, IoT is a better choice for smart agriculture now a days because the accuracy of this technology is better than WSN. The IoT combines positive aspects of all applications such as WSN, cloud computing, middleware and others[6]. IoT has been identified for quick decision making system or smart agriculture for farmers to enhance production and to increase their profit. However certain constraints such as privacy, security, data governance have limited the use of IoT. The existing methodologies in farming have used low range of communications technologies.
