Chapter 11

Automation systems in agriculture via IoT

Shylaja Vinay Kumar Karatangi

G L Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management

Reshu Agarwal and Manisha Pant

Amity Institute of Information Technology, Amity University

11.1 Introduction

In the modern world, when new technologies are emerging rapidly the need has arisen to be smart in agriculture too. India is a land of agriculture, ranking second worldwide in farm productivity. Before the advancement in the technology, farmers used to manually irrigate their lands which was a time-​consuming process as well as required more water supply. Because of consuming more time, it resulted in crop drying. Also, there were many other problems like uneven ploughing problem, intruder attacks and temperature ...

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