Wireless Sensor Networks and Monitoring of Environmental Parameters in Precision Agriculture

Abstract

The handiness and ease of use of tele-technology like mobile phones has surged the growth of ICT in developing countries like India than ever. Mobile phones are showing overwhelming responses and have helped farmers to do the work on timely basis and stay connected with the outer farming world. But mobile phones are of no use when it comes to the real-time farm monitoring or accessing the accurate information because of the little research and application of mobile phone in agricultural field for such uses. The current demand of use of WSN in agricultural fields has revolutionized the farming experiences. In Precision Agriculture, the contribution of WSN are numerous staring from monitoring soil health, plant health to the storage of crop yield. Due to pressure of population and economic inflation, a lot of pressure is on farmers to produce more out of their fields with fewer resources. This paper gives brief insight into the relation of plant disease prediction with the help of wireless sensor networks.