Open AccessIOT BASED SOIL MONITORING AND AUTOMATIC IRRIGATION SYSTEM IN THE RURAL AREA OF BANGLADESH
Author(s) -
Mohammad Shamiur Rahman Al Nahian,
Arnab Biswas,
J. C. Tsou,
Hamidur Rahman
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
acta mechatronica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2453-7306
DOI - 10.22306/am.v6i3.71
Subject(s) - unavailability , irrigation , soil moisture sensor , agricultural engineering , computer science , water content , drip irrigation , environmental science , scarcity , engineering , ecology , geotechnical engineering , reliability engineering , biology , economics , microeconomics
To serve the humanity nowadays technology is playing a wonderful role and a man’s basic and primary need is food indeed. It can be said that about more than 85% of people of Bangladesh are directly, indirectly depended on agriculture. Proper irrigation by water pump cannot be maintained due to frequent power outages, unavailability of grid lines in remote areas and scarcity/cost of fuel to run pumps. To make the sustainable irrigation system and field monitoring system for getting better crops growth as well as best production, this IOT based Automatic irrigation system is proposed. In this system IOT and WSN are used to control and monitor the irrigation system. IOT is used to obtain stored data monitoring and real time monitoring of various contents of soil. WSN is used to make a fully wireless system to make a user-friendly system to cultivate and irrigate water properly to the field. Different kinds of sensors are used. This report presents a fully automated drip irrigation system which is controlled and monitored by using “Thinkspeak Cloud Server”. Temperature and the humidity content of the soil are frequently monitored. The system informs user about any abnormal conditions like less moisture content and temperature rise, even concentration of water by sending notifications through the wireless module.