Human Communication Technology

13Internet of Things Platform for Smart Farming

R. Anandan¹*, Deepak B.S.¹, G. Suseendran¹ and Noor Zaman Jhanjhi²

¹Vels Institute of Science, Technology and Advanced Studies, Chennai, India

²School of Computer Science and Engineering, Taylor’s University, Selangor, Malaysia

Abstract

In the laundry list of problems faced by farmers across the world, lack of modern technology and mechanization for water and crop management is identified to be imperative to cope with the rapid population growth across the world and to improve the yield. The world is witnessing the increasing scarcity of water for years due to an increase in the population growth and pollution of water resources. On the other hand, the evolution of the IoT—Internet of Things (A system of connected computing devices delivered with precise identifiers that can transfer data over the internet without human-to-computer interaction or human-to-human interaction) due to convergence of embedded systems, machine learning, real-time analytics, commodity sensors and wireless sensor networks have enabled the 20th-century engineers to develop almost all the technology they have ever dreamed about. Thus this chapter aims to describe an Internet of Things platform for smart farming by using the above technologies to educate the targeted audiences on IoT and above tools with a working an example.

Keywords: Internet of Things, IoT, smart farming, real time analytics, machine learning, embedded systems, Arduino, Raspberry Pi