Towards Smart Agriculture Monitoring Using Fuzzy Systems

Abstract

Conventional farming is labor-consuming and the need to continuously monitor crops can be a burden for farmers. By realizing the concept of smart farming based on Internet of Things (IoT) technology, farmers can use a mobile application to observe and monitor air humidity, air temperature, and soil moisture-factors that can affect plant growth. Furthermore, the use of timers to control the pumps in conventional watering systems is not always practical in real-life cases. This paper proposes a framework that enables advanced fuzzy logic to control a pump's switching time according to user-defined variables, whereby sensors are the main aspect of and contributor to the system. Our proposed idea offers great potential for excellent performance as an interface between the sensors as the input and the IoT as the output medium. A comparison is made between the proposed system and manual handling. The results prove that the water consumption and watering time has been reduced significantly.