Agricultural Informatics

12Plane Region Step Farming, Animal and Pest Attack Control Using Internet of Things

Sahadev Roy^1*, Kaushal Mukherjee^2† and Arindam Biswas³

¹Department of ECE, NIT Arunachal Pradesh, Yupia, India

²Department of Physics, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, India

³School of Mines and Metallurgy, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansole, India

Abstract

The cost of agriculture in plane region grows rapidly in recent years due to less rainfall, animal and pest attack. In this paper, we present an advance step farming method applied for the plane region with the help of the IoT. The step farming done in hilly areas in terms to increase production rate, less maintenance, etc in the paddy field. By considering step farming in the plane region, we can increase the production of the crop to the next level. Moreover, by applying the network of various sensors like humidity, temperature, rain detection sensor, water level detection sensor, an ultrasonic sensor for detecting animals invading to the field, etc. These sensors are connected to the internet by using IoT network for closed monitoring. By using the IoT, we can maintain proper scheduling of the irrigation as per the weather information of the field area. We are using cayenne drag and drop IoT builder to design sensor networks for the proposed agriculture farm to observe and control various sensors and actuators from anywhere in the world through a laptop, desktop, and Android Smartphone. Here we present a prototype of a irrigation field ...