Smart irrigation for commercial farmers

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming the agriculture industry and enabling farmers to contend with enormous challenges they face. Livestock monitoring, conservation monitoring and plant and soil monitoring are the challenges where IoT can be a solution. The innovative IoT applications address the issues in agriculture and increase the quality, quantity, sustainability and cost effectiveness of agricultural production. Today’s large and local farms can leverage IoT to remotely monitor sensors that can detect soil moisture, temperature, humidity, crop growth, detect pests and control their smart connected harvesters and irrigation equipment. This project aims at monitoring the soil parameters like soil moisture, temperature and humidity to automate the irrigation process. Decision making is done through a microcontroller. User is acknowledged about the changes in the atmospheric condition of the field. In case of deviation from the preset values, the signal is sent to the web page which enable the farmer to either irrigate the farm automatically or manually.