A low cost iot enabled device for monitoring agriculture field and smart irrigation system

Abstract

Agriculture plays a crucial role in the economy of the country. It provides employment opportunities for a large number of people in the country. The traditional techniques used by the farmers are monoculture, pesticide resistance, erosion, water depletion and pest detection etc. The major challenge in agriculture is the usage of excessive water in the crops and monitoring the nutrients in the soil. Usage of large proportions of pesticides in agriculture leads to less productive crops and damages the health of the soil. All these problems in agriculture are degrading the development of the country. Modernisation of agriculture is the smart solution to this problem. The proposed work aims to develop an IoT device for smart crop field monitoring system and automated irrigation system using the wireless sensor networks (WSN) and monitors the temperature, humidity and measures the content of moisture in the soil. The data received from the sensors is stored and analysed in the cloud platform. The system provides a user-friendly web interface for the farmers to access the information about the crop and content of moisture in the soil from the cloud platform.