Smart Agriculture Using IOT
- June 1, 2018
- Posted by: RSIS
- Categories: Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electronics & Communication Engineering
International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume V, Issue V, May 2018 | ISSN 2321–2705
Sushmitha.S1, Vinaya.Naik2, Thirtha. A L3, Rohan.R4, Prof. Aneesh Jain5
1, 2, 3, 4UG Students, Department of ECE, Alva’s Institute of Engineering and Technology, Mangaluru, Karnataka, India
5Assistant Professor, Dept. of ECE, Alva’s Institute of Engineering and Technology, Mangaluru, Karnataka, India
Abstract: – Climate changes and rainfall which are rapidly changing over the past few decades are affecting the agriculture along with some of the old cultivate methods of farmers too. Due to this in recent era, climate-smart methods called as smart agriculture is adopted by many Indian farmers. Technology is getting developed faster which could help our farmers. Out of these technologies IOT (internet of things) or in other words can be called as wireless sensor networks (i.e., wireless communication with remote monitoring) is one of the efficient technology growing fast, wide with vast amount of applications. Major objective of the paper is to work with real time applications. The main features of this paper include temperature and humidity detection, soil moisture detection, leaf wetness detection, wind speed/direction and rainfall detection, soil ph detection and efficient irrigation system. All these information are sent to farmers as alerts or through short messaging services and advice them on weather pattern and crops etc.
I. INTRODUCTION
India is land of agriculture and farmers are called as the backbone of India. Well agriculture is one of the important thing for us nothing survives without agriculture. Food prices are continuously increasing because crop rate is continuously declining. Nearly 50 million people into poverty since 2012. The iot contributes significantly towards innovating farming methods. Farming challenges caused by population growth and climate change have made it one of the first industries to utilize the iot. The integration of wireless sensors with agricultural mobile apps and cloud platforms helps in collecting vital information pertaining to the environmental conditions – temperature, rainfall, humidity, wind speed, pest infestation, soil humus content or nutrients, besides others linked with a farmland, can be used to improve and automate farming techniques, take informed decisions to improve quality and quantity, and minimize risks and wastes. The app-based field or crop monitoring also lowers the hassles of managing crops at multiple locations. For example, farmers can now detect which areas have been fertilized (or mistakenly missed), if the land is too dry and predict future yields.
