Smart LCC Device: LCC-Based IoT Device for measuring urea consumption in major food crops

Lands of Bangladesh are very fertile. Despite having so many fertile lands, Bangladesh cannot gain its expected output of crops. One of the main reasons is Bangladeshi Farmers are unaware of modern technology of crop cultivation. They apply urea in agricultural land according to assumption and do not know the negative impact of excessive urea application which causes the increment of diseases, attack of insects in crops, leads to huge economic loss and environmental pollution by Green House Gas emission and waste of time, money, fertilizer and crops. Leaf Color Chart (LCC) is an example of modern technology, which is a Nitrogen Parameter used to detect either the soil of green crops like Paddy, Wheat and Maize requires Urea Fertilizer or not and if it requires then, how much Urea is needed to be applied. But it requires many calculation processes and the whole processes are different for different crops which seems difficult for farmers to memorize and calculate. This paper attempts an assessment in proposing the solution and at the same time develops a prototype of a device with IoT features for the use of the farmers on Bangladeshi Agricultural Land to get rid of this problem. Farmers only need to input Crop, the Land Size and match certain numbers of Leaves Color prescribed by the Device with given 6 green color strips of the color chart on the Device and The Device then shows and tells either the land requires Urea or not and if it requires then how much Urea is needed to be applied. Internet of Things (IoT) is implemented in the Device so that important data about these Urea measurement process with exact time and location are stored on the Online Database. The stored data can be analyzed by the online website using bar-chart and Google heat-map to help Bangladesh Agriculture Ministry in monitoring country-wide urea applications efficiently.