An Integrated Framework for Crop Cultivation using Internet of Things and Computational Intelligence

Crop cultivation is one of the prime sources which determines a nation’s prosperity and economic growth. But most of the farmers face difficulties to survive due to lack of enough labors, inappropriate and traditional methods followed to monitor agricultural fields and plant growth etc. As technology has evolved, it is possible to automate the various phases of farming activities. There are many standard sensors available to remotely monitor the soil moisture content, pH content, fire detection in the field, intruder detection etc. All these sensors sense the information and is fed to a central coordinator which will process the data and initiate necessary actions. All these are done over internet and thus the concept can be called as Smart farming using Internet of Things. It is also possible to analyze the image of plant leaf to identify the various plant dis-eases with the help of Machine Vision. Our model thus reduces the farmer’s overhead using IoT and computational intelligence.