IoT Application in Agriculture to Make “Smart Agriculture”

Dr. Somnath B.Thigale (sbthigale@coe.sveri.ac.in), Associate Professor, CSE Dept. SVERI’s College of Engineering, Pandharpur Mob. No. +91-9970158565

Contents

• What is IOT?

• Why IOT?

• IOT in agriculture

• Applications

• Implemented method

• Advantages and disadvantages

• Conclusion

1. What is IOT?

IOT is short for Internet of Things.

The Internet of Things (IOT) is inter-networking of physical devices. This system has ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. Means Devices can share data (information) to each other continuously without interventions of Human beings.

• Why IOT?

• IOT has many applications in agriculture, smart Cities, smart home, healthcare, business sectors, Traffic monitoring, Transport and logistics etc.

• This is a growing mega trend that will influence everything from businesses to our daily personal lives.

• Here we are mainly focusing on agriculture as it plays a vital role in development of our country’s economy.

• Why IOT?

Today, India ranks second in the world in farm output 64% of cultivated land dependent on monsoons.

• Irrigation accounts for 55-75% of water usage in India.

• Nearly 60% of the water used in irrigation is wasted.

• We conserve water by using soil moisture sensors

4. IOT Application in Agriculture:

• Crop water management
• Pest management and control works
• Precision agriculture
• Food production and safety etc.,

(A) Crop Water Management

• Usually  the  farmer  pumps  the  water  more  or  less  to cultivate the land.

•  This  may  result  in  wastage  of  water  or  insufficiency  to the crops.

• sends   an   alerting   message   to   the   farmer   when   the moisture level increases or decreases.

(B) PEST MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL WORKS

• Often farmer’s hardwork are destroyed by predators (pests) that results in huge loss to farmers.

• To prevent such situation AGRICULTURE INTERNET OF THINGS has a system that detects the motionof predators using PIR sensors.
• This information can be used by the farmers to reduce damage done by predators by taking immediate action and mitigating the risk.

5. Implementation Method:

Soil Moisture Sensor:

A sensor that will sense the moisture level in the land (sand) calledSOIL MOISTURE SENSOR.

PIR : Passive Infrared Sensor: A PIR based motion detector is used to sense movement of people, animals or other objects.

 Arduino :Both SOIL MOISTURE SENSOR and PIR SENSOR are connected to the Arduino to perform an action.

• Arduino will send the data to the data base using Ethernet shield and if emergency it also send message to the user by using a device called GSM module.

                    

Advantages:

Cost effective method

Optimize water use

Sustain high-yielding

High quality crop production

Disadvantage:

Need for each soil type is calibrated

Conclusions:

• We can predict soil moisture level and motion of predators.

• Irrigation system can be monitored.

• Damage caused by predators is reduced.

• Increased productivity.

• Water conservation.

• Profit to farmers.

Future Work: IOT Based ERP for Entire Agriculture.