Design and Development of IoT based System for Retrieval of Agrometeorological Parameters

The Internet of Things (IoT) has the ability to transform agriculture industry. Smart farming based on IoT technologies will help farmers to increase yields and better crop management. The objective of this research is to design and develop a near real-time web-based weather and soil monitoring system capable of increasing the crop yield with the help of study of different weather and soil parameter values. This implementation resulted in a monitoring system that can collect the current air temperature, humidity, dew point, heat index, air pressure, rain intensity, soil moisture and soil temperature. The system provides current updates of soil and weather parameters as well as historical values of those parameters. The result obtained in this research is used for computing heat index and monitoring environmental effect on crops. This study demonstrates the ability of data acquisition in the near real-time and remote location accurately and efficiently.