Smart Irrigation: Towards Next Generation Agriculture

Abstract

Watering to plants or on whole field of crop is most important and pain taking task on daily basis. Quantity of water required by plant is one of the effective parameter for greenhouse effect on plants. To make this challenging work to informal, some analytical and historical data is required so that irrigation cycle of crop may become easy task for farmers. This project is made with the use of Node MCU board; consist of ESP8266 Microcontroller with in-built Wi-Fi module. Soil Moisture sensor is set in the field, which keeps track of moisture level in field soil. That collected data are sent over cloud to make people’s nurturing activity pleased and tranquil. Data from the cloud is collected and irrigation related graph report for future use for farmer is made to take decision about which crop is to be sown. “Smart Irrigation Analysis” is an IoT application which provides remote analysis of irrigation on the field to the end user which is better than traditional irrigation of crop on field. Smart irrigation application has an automated recurring watering schedule; sensing and analysis of water used for crop and also senses moisture level giving real time data.