Implementation of Real-Time Monitoring on Agricultural Land of Rice Plants Using Smart Sensor

Abstract

The soil fertility of plantation area is vital for determining the farmers' success in producing rice. Several factors of the rice plants environment are mandatory to be monitored to achieve the maximum quality of the harvests. Today, the use of control systems are widely encountered in various aspects of life, manual measurements to determine the environmental conditions of rice plants will be less efficient in terms of time. Therefore, a system is required that is able to monitor the rice crops in real time. The method implemented in the research was supported by several parameters such as changes in humidity, temperature, pH, soil moisture and light intensity. Data of every sensor will be stored in the database and farmers can receive notification on plantation area monitoring in the form of SMS Gateway. These sensors will be placed in several locations on the field to improve the measurement accuracy. Based on the 1-week test, all sensors generated stable values and average errors of pH at 1.99 temperature at 1.29%, air humidity at 0.54%, soil moisture at 0.31%, and light intensity at 0.49%. The result of the test was aligned with the architecture, and all sensors showed that the monitoring went well.