Smart Agriculture Using Wireless Sensor Monitoring Network Powered By Solar Energy

Abstract

Every single life in this world depends on agriculture to reside. People are cultivating plants in a traditional way of agriculture since from thousands of years. In this era of development there is a huge demand to fulfil. So a revolution is clearly needed in the field of agriculture. This paper explores how a smart agriculture can be installed in place of traditional agriculture. Here an agri-tech system is designed to monitor several parameters of the crop field through wireless sensors and also automation is applied to balance those monitored parameters. Wireless sensors are used to monitored the soil moisture level, pH level of the soil, soil temperature etc. After monitoring, these real time data are transferred by zigbeenetwork to a control system (raspberry pi)to balance the parameters of the soil of the crop field according to the requirements. Zigbeeprotocol gives the input of the raspberry pi which analyzes the data properly and according to the requirements it gives the output. This output is able to pump the required amount of the water to the crop field, balanced the pH level by spreading the précised type of fertilizer and also checks the temperature of the soil. Thus the percentage of crop production is effectively increased by this automatic monitoring system. The energy needed to drive the system, will be provided by solar panels in off-grid manner.