An Approach for Agricultural Field Monitoring and Control Using IoT
Modernization of the farming process is one of the crucial steps for a country like India, which has to import tremendous amount of grains and agro products from other countries to meet the demand of 1.2 billion populations. Various architectural and technological improvements have been suggested in the past and have been widely adopted over the years to improve the productivity of the agricultural field. One of the major challenges of the agriculture is the proper monitoring of the soil health, the environment, and adjusting the irrigation as well as the plant clear according to this observation. Traditionally, Indian farmers have adopted manual observation based technique which has resulted in either excessive use of pesticides or under use of watering or many issues which results in less efficient and less productive crops. In this work we propose a novel IoT based solution for agriculture field monitoring and irrigation control. The system connects physical sensing devices with the cloud and connects the irrigation control mechanism with the cloud. This keeps an immense analysis and problem solving capability to the overall architecture. Results have shown that we can mitigate data in real time with exceedingly low latency and based on that we can take the decisions.