IoT based smart farming system

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a concept of interconnected of various devices, a vehicle to the internet. IoT contain actuators and sensors for transferring data to and from the devices. This technology is developed for better efficiency and accuracy and minimizing human interaction with the devices. Idea of smart farming system based on IoT is to automate the farming. India ranks second in Farm output. Farmers are not well trained in our country so that sometimes because of their lack of knowledge in maintenance and nurturing the plant they face difficulties. To remove this problem, we are going to design this Smart farming system. First, we have to study the characteristic of the plant. Here we will cover requirement of water, requirement of fertilizer, requirement of sunlight confined to this specific plant. It is a system that can detect the presence of sunlight and water. When the quantity of these two things goes beyond the minimum defined limit, then the LED glows. It also gives an alert if it requires water and sunlight. Then we will use water level sensor and based on that sensor output we will drive our motor to supply water to the plant. Now to adjust the amount of Sunlight a rotating motor is connected to a vertical semi slide. Now our idea can be elaborated by driving the motors with solar energy. In smart farming system based on IoT, the farmers getting live data of temperature, soil moisture and smoke detection on their mobile for better environment monitoring which will enable them to do smart farming and increase the overall quality of products.