Agribot: Iot Based Farmbot for Smart Farming

Abstract

Agriculture has been always the important occupation of the country like India where two-third of the population is dependent on it for their livelihood. The traditional system of agriculture is mostly dependent on the natural resources which sometimes yield good production and sometimes in losses. Moreover, proliferative population, decrease in farming land, natural calamities like drought, unwanted heavy rainfall and storms worsen the situation. However from the past few decades, various scientific innovations have changed the agricultural and farming techniques with time. IoT, AI and Machine learning techniques are used for smart farming to get the good crop yield. In this paper, an IOT based technology platform is proposed for farming. The farming bot "Agribot" proposed in this paper is equipped with the significant sensor for keeping track of environmental parameters on which farming is dependent. The android application with this bot provides view of data extracted from all the sensors and pictures of the crop/veggies grown in farm at regular basis so that one can monitor it at their finger-tip from any place. It also performs data analytics on the sensor data for calculating watering time intervals for the specific crop which can be viewed in android Application.