e-Agriculture: Irrigation System based on Weather Forecasting

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging area to assist agriculture related applications. Applications such as smart gardening, water maintenance, other equipment automatic installations based on human actions, etc., can be implemented using IoT. In this paper, a wireless sensor based networking system is proposed to address water pumping system to crop and feed nutrients to crop. The first problem is to automate the process of pumping the water to crop in a garden. Temperature and humidity sensor are used to monitor the temperature in order to initiate the water pumping system, while soil moisture sensors are used for sensing the water level and initiate the process of pumping the water to the crops in the garden. Rain sensor is used to check the rain, if rain is coming it is going to stop all the motors. Second, liquid nutrients will be given to crop with water pumping system using venturi injector. River Formation Dynamics based data collection is applied to collect and store the information in server for further processing. Proposed systems are deployed and demonstrated using open-source hardware such as micro controller, GSM, etc.