Soil Moisture Counter in Smart Farming

Abstract

Agriculture has been the primary occupation in our country for ages. But now due to migration of people from rural to urban there is hindrance in agriculture. To overcome this problem, it will be better to go for smart agriculture techniques using IoT. To bring this concept into reality, various sensors are used and deployed at different locations in the farm. IoT gives a platform to researchers to maintain real time data. Soil moisture monitoring is an area of growing study for dryland farming and irrigators alike. Accurate monitoring of soil moisture penetration into the soil depth profile is key to efficient and effective irrigation techniques by access to information that comes from sensors. In this paper we are showing practical demonstration of Soil Moisture Counter in Smart Farming so that effective irrigation can lead to increased yields by preventing plant stress days and keeping nutrients in the fibrous root zone.