Drones for Smart Agriculture: A Technical Report

Abstract

One of main source of income in of India is Agriculture. The production rate of crops in agriculture is based on various parameters like temperature, humidity, rain, etc. Which are natural factors and not in farmers control. The field of agriculture is also depends on some of factors like pests, disease, fertilizers, etc which can be control by giving proper treatment to crops. Pesticides may increase the productivity of crops but it also affects on human health. So the main aim of this paper is to design agriculture drone for spraying pesticides. In this paper, we are going to discus different architecture based on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The use of pesticides in agriculture is very important to agriculture and it will be so easy if will use intelligent machines such as robots using new technologies. This paper gives the idea about various technologies used to reduce human efforts in various operations of agriculture like detection of presence of pests, spraying of UREA, spraying of fertilizers, etc. This paper describes the development of quad copter UAV and the spraying mechanism. In this paper we also discuss integration of sprayer module to quad copter system. The discussed system involves designing a prototype which uses simple cost effective equipment like BLDC motor, Arduino, ESC wires, etc.