SMART FARMING: SENSING TECHNOLOGIES

Abstract

Agriculture is the backbone of the India. The degradation of land and surface as well as ground water resources results in fast deterioration of soil health. This paper presents the IoT-based agricultural production system for stabilizing supply and demand of agricultural products while developing the environment sensors and prediction system for the growth and production amount of crops by gathering its environmental information. Currently, the demand by consumption of agricultural products could be predicted quantitatively, however, the variation of harvest and production by the change of farm's cultivated area, weather change, disease and insect damage etc. could not be predicted, so that the supply and demand of agricultural products has not been controlled properly. To overcome it, this paper designed the IoT-based monitoring system to analyze crop environment, and the method to improve the efficiency of decision making by analyzing harvest statistics. Indian farmer to get relevant information regarding agro-inputs, crop production technologies. The Internet of Things is the intelligent connectivity of physical devices driving massive gains in efficiency, business growth, and quality of life. It is transforming the agriculture industry and enabling farmers to contend with the enormous challenges they face. The industry - must overcome increasing water shortages, limited availability of lands, difficult to manage costs.of consumption needs of a global population.The only solution to this problem is bringing smart agriculture by modernizing the current traditional methods of agriculture. The system aims making agriculture smart using automation and IoT technologies. The highlighting features of the model includes smart GPS based remote controlled robot to perform. Controlling of all these operations will be through any remote smart device or computer connected to Internet and operations will be performed by interfacing sensors, Wi-Fi or ZigBee modules, camera, actuators with micro-controller and raspberry. The proposed system which is useful in monitoring the field data as well as controlling the field operations and finding the soil type in which plant is suitable for that soil. It can automate with help of sensor using robotics. Our aims at making agriculture smart using automation and IoT technology.