Towards IoT-based Notification System for Agriculture Electric Fence

Abstract

In agriculture, electric fence is used as one of the methods to protect the food crops, especially from wild animals. Wild animals such as monkeys and elephants will cause immense damage and losses of food crops of farmers if the fence is malfunction. Therefore, this paper proposed the IoT-based electric fence notification system that allows farmers to observe the status of the fence from their phone. In this work, the use of ACS 712 sensor is introduced to measure the current flows on the fence whilst a continuous current supply is assured by detecting the level of the battery via sensor. Blynk application is suggested in this work as a platform to notify the farmers via their phone. The initial findings show that the proposed system capable of notifying the farmer when there is no current supply to the fence. Nonetheless, this system allows the farmer to monitor the battery status remotely, which promote hassle-free farm supervision.