A Novel Intelligent Robust Optimized Dynamic and Efficient Cluster (NIRODEC) Based Routing Protocol for IoT Assisted Precision Agriculture

Abstract

An era of precision agriculture has started and its benefits to the human beings are assumed to be more. Now a days modern agriculture requires the usage of new technologies for getting higher yields. Currently Internet of Things (IoT) plays an innovative role in agricultural practices. IoT is a flexible network of sensor nodes which senses the data from physical environment and send it to the sink node for further process. Transmitting the data from sensor nodes to the sink node or Base Station is an important parameter in the IoT network. There is need to find the ways which makes the design and use of routing protocols and algorithms wherever possible for improving the automation in the agriculture. Precision Agriculture is nothing but bringing the automation in agriculture in such a way that its working happens autonomously in the situation where the involvement of human being is very hard. The life time of sensor node is restricted in IoT network. So, there is need to follow such an approach which dissipate as less as possible energy of nodes. While the transmission of data among the nodes energy aware and efficient routing protocols are necessary. There are various approaches of clustering algorithms exist to optimize the energy of routing protocols. Besides this there is a scope to pay attention on the latency, network life time, throughput etc. This paper addresses the features and limitations of existing cluster based routing protocols in the IoT assisted Precision Agriculture.