Digitalization And Automation Of Analog Soil Sensor Data For Monitoring Soil Characteristics

The efficiency of soil has always played an important role in determining the quality and quantity of production. This efficiency depends on the macronutrients that are available in the soil which provides a specific or sometimes variable pH values. These pH values in turn help to sustain the growth of plants of different behavioral characteristics. In addition to pH, moisture content and the amount of light received also determine the type of plantation to be cultivated. In India, generally, the traditional manual monitoring system has been used by the farmers, where they themselves secure the soil and look for its changing nutrient composition and pH using discrete materials, which is laborious and time-consuming. Even the plantations get damaged due to their exposure to immense intensities of sunlight. The proposed automated system can help in monitoring the soil pH at regular intervals while keeping in a record of the soil moisture specifications and the surrounding light specifications. This relaxes the burden of the farmers from physical monitoring, as they can be notified of the changing conditions at regular periods as may be set depending upon the geographical requirements. Moreover, the reduction in soil efficiency can also be analyzed easily via the proposed system interface.