IoT based smart soil monitoring system for agricultural production

Abstract

Agriculture plays the major role in economics and survival of people in India. The purpose of this project is to provide embedded based system for soil monitoring and irrigation to reduce the manual monitoring of the field and get the information via mobile application. The system is proposed to help the farmers to increase the agricultural production. The soil is tested using various sensors such as pH sensor, temperature sensor, and humidity sensor. Based on the result, the farmers can cultivate the appropriate crop that suits the soil. The obtained sensor values are sent to the field manager through the Wi-Fi router and the crop suggestion is made through the mobile application. Automatic irrigation system is carried out when the soil temperature is high. Crop image is captured and it is sent to the field manager to suggest pesticides.