8Sensor-Based Irrigation System: Introducing Technology in Agriculture
Rohit Rastogi1*, Krishna Vir Singh1, Mihir Rai1, Kartik Sachdeva1, Tarun Yadav2 and Harshit Gupta1
1Department of Computer Science and Engineering, ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad, India
2Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad, India
Abstract
Agriculture sector has been the backbone of India. The contribution of the agriculture sector in the GDP has been much higher than the world average. Although, this has been falling gradually. This is primarily because of climate change, increasing water shortage and unawareness of farmers about optimal conditions and precision farming.
IoT is advancing everywhere, leveraging the quality of products and increasing the production many folds. The agriculture sector has been lagging in being connected to IoT because of the current expensive solutions. In this paper, we introduce a concept for sector-based smart and precision farming most importantly cheap in cost using IoT which senses the weather and soil conditions of the farm-like soil moisture and temperature which is then used to irrigate the field accordingly. This is connected to the mobile app via the cloud service which can be used to view the data and control the actuators manually.
Keywords: IoT, agriculture, sensor & actuator, humidity, soil moisture, drip irrigation, RF module
8.1 Introduction
Currently, most of the farmers flood the field with water. ...
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