Agro-tech: A digital model for monitoring soil and crops using internet of things (IOT)

The various advancements made in numerous domains using new technologies are seen in many real time applications. Yet, the application of these technologies involved in the field of agriculture still remains a challenging task. The main aim of this paper is to propose a wireless sensor network technology in agronomy, which can show the path to the rural farming community to enhance some of the traditional techniques. This paper proposes an IOT application named ‘AGRO-TECH’ that will be used to record, store and update the activities of various sensors which is accessible by farmers to keep track of his field details in terms of soil and crop monitoring. The activities such as soil moisture, level of ph., temperature, humidity, light dependent resistance, water level are monitored and observed by different types of sensors that are included in the proposed system. These sensors collectively combine the information that analyses to increase the yield of crop production. Based on the threshold value of soil moisture sensor the sensor relay triggers either the motor or the irrigation sprinkler to mitigate the impact of water scarcity by the monitoring of water level sensor in the tank and also the temperature sensor. Thus essential information about soil, crop and other environmental factors will be sent and updated to farmers through our proposed system methodology.