Agriculture is the backbone of all the developing countries. The economy of a developing country mainly depends on agriculture and farms in rural areas and applying traditional approaches is not sufficient in today’s scenario. Now a day, water scarcity is one of the main challenges faced by the farmers. Another major challenge featured by Indian agriculture sector is that the increase in rate of farmers’ suicide due to debt. Monitoring environmental conditions is the major factor to reduce the cost of farming and improve yield of the efficient crops. Focusing on encouraging innovative challenges in agriculture, smart farming is the solution for the problems that the industry is currently facing. Use of modern technologies like Internet of Things (IoT) gives a new dimension in the area of smart farming in agriculture domain with low cost and scalable solutions. Smart irrigation system not only overcomes this problem but also provide clean source of energy. The IoT technology has realized the smart wearable's, connected devices, automated machines, and driverless cars that contain electronics, software, sensors and connectivity which allows these things to connect, interact and exchange data. However, in agriculture, the IoT has brought the best impact. This paper includes development of a smart irrigation system which can monitor temperature, humidity, moisture in agricultural field through sensors using PIC Microcontroller and in case of any discrepancy send a SMS notification as well as a notification on the application developed for the same to the farmer’s smart phone using Wi-Fi/3G/4G. The proposed system gets Live Data feeds, various devices like Smart Phones, Tablets are used. The data generated via sensors can be easily shared and viewed by agriculture field owner (farmer) anywhere remotely via Cloud Computing technology integration. The farmers can see the field data (moisture, temperature, humidity) using Thingspeak website through their unique login id and password from database with cloud computing. Unauthorized person can’t view or access that field data without getting permission from the owners.
Volume 11 | Issue 8
Pages: 269-279