Soil Quality Monitoring System using Low-Powered Wireless Sensor Network

Abstract

The advancement of new technologies has provided solutions to various problems our lives. In the Philippines, farming has been a way of living, and farmers tend to do traditional farming, which does not utilize any technology. Wireless sensor networks aim to improve harvest’s quantity and quality and maintain a good environment. Data transmission through wireless sensor networks is highly power depleting. Therefore, power-saving is needed, especially in agricultural lands and hard-to-reach places. The soil quality monitoring system is created using a low-powered wireless sensor network. A power management technique was implemented using the sleep mode feature of the ESP8266. The system has successfully measured the soil qualities, checked if in range, and notified when values are out of range. Additionally, power and energy consumption are compared to a system without power management. The value of the energy saved is around 99.87% which indicates that the system is more efficient.