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Application and Development of Agriculture Monitoring System Using Wireless Sensor Networks |
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Dr. K. Manikandan, Archit Kumar, Sumit Katara, Pooja Mahajan |
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Vol. 26 No. 4 pp. 168-171 |
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The main aim of this paper to explore the potential of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) technology in agriculture, which can help to replace some of the traditional methods of farming and improves decision making. There are immense application of WSNs for collecting, storing and analyzing or sharing sensed data. They can be used for various applications like habitat monitoring, agriculture, nuclear reactor control, security and tactical surveillances. In this project, there are several external sensors like soil moisture, atmospheric pressure, leaf wetness, soil pH sensors attached. Depending on the value of soil moisture sensor, the system will trigger the water sprinklers at the time of water scarcity. When there is sufficient water, the sprinkler will be turned off. This will also conserve the water. Also, system will sent the value of soil pH to the base station which will inform the farmer about the soil pH via SMS using GSM modem. This will help the farmer to select necessary fertilizers which in turn prevents excess use of fertilizers. This will provide a helping hand to the farmers in real-time monitoring, achieving precision agriculture and hence increasing the production by overcoming the problems faced due to lack of proper knowledge about crops conditions and technical support. Thus, this system limits the problems of wired sensor networks and has the advantage of flexible networking for monitoring equipment, simple installation and removing of equipment, low power consumption, low cost and reliable nodes and high capacity. |
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Keywords |
WSN, Precison agriculture, Crop monitoring, Decision making |
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