Design of Sensor Nodes for Agricultural field monitoring Using IoT and BLE mesh technology

Agriculture plays a crucial role in the development of agrarian nation like India. In traditional farming, farmers visited the field regularly to keep a check on the soil moisture, temperature, humidity etc. This consumes much time and energy, especially when the farm size is large. An integrated system is needed, which will monitor the various parameters and provide necessary control. Agricultural field can be monitored using Bluetooth low energy (BLE) mesh technology to acquire all the data from sensor nodes placed in different parts of the field. The Internet of Things (IoT) will help farmer to get linked to his farm from anywhere and everywhere via Cloud. The system developed allows farmers to monitor various field conditions remotely and make decisions which would lead to increased crop productivity, with comparatively lesser human efforts, low cost, less power consumption and no internet connection in the field.