An IOT Based Automatic Agricultural Monitoring and Irrigation System

Abstract

Agriculture is the basic source of food supply for all countries in the world. Water is the Essential resources for agriculture. The automated irrigation and crop field monitoring system is used to optimize the use of water resource for agriculture. The system consists of sensor network for humidity, temperature, soil moisture, colour and water level sensors. soil moisture, temperature, water level ,colour sensor are placed in the root zone of the crops. The microcontroller of the controller unit is programmed with threshold values of the temperature and moisture content. The controller unit is used to control the irrigation motor thereby controlling the water flow to the field. In addition to that water level sensor is placed in this field, if it is excess water the motor gets automatically pumps the water into the outer area. Colour sensor provide the appropriate colour of leaf and the user give the pesticide before destroying plants. Field measure data about paddy plants. Raspberry pi is used in the controller mode. Internet of the things(IOT) is an ecosystem of connected physical objects that are accessible through the internet. Real time monitoring data can be utilized and the performance can be tracked. Hence high yield can be achieved. This project is mainly focused on improving the agricultural fields yield by providing a monitoring system with effective and efficient usage of water resource. Thus further development in this project will lead to a greater efficiency in the field of agriculture.