Smart Agriculture

Chapter 10

Smart irrigation in farming using internet of things

Devesh Kumar Srivastava and Priyanka Nair

Manipal University

10.1 Introduction

Farming in Rajasthan is barely successful. The main cause for the failure of farming techniques is the wrong predictions. These unforeseeable situations are forcing many of the farmers to even take their own lives as they are unable to bear the enormous losses. Hence, we need to keep the essential parameters of agriculture in our mind such as the soil quality and its water content. For a place such as Rajasthan we are already facing the major problem of water scarcity. We have therefore come up with a unique idea of applying internet of things (IoT) in crop monitoring and introducing new techniques of ...