Design of farmer friendly intelligent system to monitor and control the parameters in precision agriculture

Abstract

The principle objective of the proposed framework is to outline a convenient, versatile and low cost farmer friendly intelligent system to accomplish efficient use of water supply and motor control. It senses on field data like climate temperature and soil moisture level, rainfall, with the assistance of sensors used in the system. And also check for 3-ϕ supply availability, no load condition of water pump, intruder detection (humans, animals etc.). farmer receives all the parameters data sensed on field, for further decision making about the need for watering. Also need for motor Turn ON/OFF based on sensing rain fall and the same will be sent to the farmer, who might be away from the field. If any intruder is detected alarm gets enabled and the same is notified to the farmer via SMS. In the proposed system “SMS on demand service” is provided to get the status of all parameters like water resource availability, soil’s moisture content, 3-ϕ power supply availability and the intruder detection. The system helps the farmer in switching the motor according to his need i.e., whether the water is required for the crop or not. A user friendly mobile application and normal SMS service will enable the farmer to monitor and control the land parameters from the remote place efficiently. Hence the proposed method shows satisfactory performance to measure and monitor the land parameters and moreover 3-ϕ supply availability based motor operation saves from motor failure.