Pricing on Use of Cloud Computing and Internet of Things for Optimized Agricultural Practices

This paper endeavours to provide a better future for the agro industry in middle-and low-income countries such as India. The project incorporates various technical domains such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud - Computing to optimise agricultural practices. The focus here is directed primarily towards farms located in the much-isolated areas far from the reaches of contemporary technology. Only 186 million people utilise the internet in rural India, which has a population of 918 million people according to the 2011 census. As more and more farms and cottage industries are centred in and around rural zones, connectivity and access to the web is virtually absent. The situation above doesn’t bode well for farmers and cultivators who hope to obtain the very best out of every yield. The system thus proposed uses a combination of Wireless Sensor Networks, GSM modules (or even fixed landline connections) along with the cloud to effectively retrieve accurate real time data from the fields and transmit it through a medium such as a desktop / mainframe to the cloud where it is stored and analysed using tested algorithms that then provide an optimal guide to the farmer located at the field.