IoT based Irrigation and Water Logging monitoring system using Arduino and Cloud Computing

In a peninsular country like India, agriculture contributes about 16% of total GDP, so irrigation system has been given a high priority in economic development. With the advancement of wireless sensor network, cloud computing and IoT in the field of irrigation, this paper aims at conventional usage of water by providing adequate amount of water to the crops at the right time and conserving the excess run-off water from the farmlands. The excess runoff water will be saved in a tank for future use. As in coastal belts of India there remains a heavy scarcity of water during the month of March to May the farmlands remains as barren lands. By using this method, crop rotation becomes possible, as water will be supplied from the water stored from run-off water. It aims at automation the irrigation process by surveillance of soil moisture, humidity and temperature. Arduino Uno is the micro-controller, which monitors the sustainability conditions of the crops ensuring adequate water supply and better crop yield. It also helps the farmer to control the farmland remaining in far away from that place also. By using IoT the farmer can also make a predictive study of the amount of water requirement in the upcoming days. Humidity sensor, temperature sensor and moisture sensor are deployed in the peripherals of the field which will sense the environmental conditions and send those data to an local wireless server and the recorded data will be stored on cloud.