An IoT-based Smart Agriculture Management System: Case Study in the Southern region of Senegal

Agriculture has evolved in perfect correlation with modern technologies. Hence, the practices continue to evolve to be in step with the growing food needs. In addition, many factors push to reflect on the improvement of agriculture including climate change, soil decline (due to poor crop rotation), and the retention of natural resources. It is therefore in this context that many countries like Senegal, where agriculture remains traditional, particularly in its southern region, are directing their agricultural system towards intelligence to deal with the challenges of food self-sufficiency to accompany emergence. This paper proposes a real smart agriculture system prototype based on the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, named MbaïMi. It allows farmers to have real-time advice so that they can secure their decisions. the system can offer farmers a classification of the most suitable crops for a given field to allow the farmers to choose the seeds adapted to the soil for a better yield. Moreover, the application gives farmers who practice irrigated agriculture the possibility to rationally control the management of their water resources by irrigating at the right time when the soil and the crops demand it. The implementation and case studies for validation show that the application facilitates the daily hard work of the farmers in southern Senegal and helps to improve their yield, which is an innovation in the sector of agriculture in Senegal.