AgriTech: Data Acquisition in Agriculture

Internet of Things enabled embedded system have revolutionised the agriculture sector in the past few decades. Agriculture and technology have converged to connect numerous small-scale devices via various communication protocols. By 2025, the size of the smart agriculture market is predicted to quadruple. The main challenge in the horticulture/agriculture sector is the manual collection of sensory data. This human data gathering is replaced in this study by an automatic data collecting system, which then sends the raw data to a cloud-based mobile app. The research utilizes the Blynk mobile application for fast and seamless data acquisition, and reduces the complexities involved in developing and programming a personalised webserver. This research is successful in developing a portable embedded system that is extremely efficient as it can transmit raw sensory data in real-time. As part of the research, a technological case study with a potted plant was carried out, which was used to obtain real-time data points.