Voice Recognition Enabled Farmer Assistance Module with LoRaWAN Connectivity

Abstract

Agriculture, together with its linked sectors, is now one of the major sources of income in India, especially in the extensive rural places. But the agriculturists face enormous struggles including, the need to cope with adopting new technologies to increase their produce and profits. There is an inevitable need for an innovation intended to ensure the benefit of government schemes, high-technology agro-machinery, and agro-services for the farmers in the rural areas, where connectivity is not adequate for effective communication. The data generated by ‘IoT devices for agro-applications’ in turn provides an insight on the ways to help farmers in making conscious decisions to boost farm productivity, thus saving time and money. The system entails the installation of LoRaWan communication nodes (equipped with microphones for speech-to-text interpretation) across various farmlands, via which farmers may transmit service requests. The acquired sensitive information is transmitted through the nodes until the terminal node (set up at the Administration Office) thereby reaches the server. The in-need requirements of the farmer are fulfilled thereforth. The said system fulfills the objective of providing better connectivity and exposure to technologies.