Agricultural Field Soil Monitoring System & Smart Protection of Crops using Agricultural IOT

Globally, the economy of many countries is dependent upon agriculture. Despite economic development agriculture is the backbone of the economy. Agriculture is the main stay of economy. It contributes to the gross domestic product. But because of animal interference and lack of soil monitoring factors (Humidity, Moisture, Temperature, Methane), there is huge loss of crops. Crops are totally getting destroyed. To avoid these financial losses, it is very important to protect agricultural field or farms from animal and unwanted changes in the soil. To overcome this problem, we are going to make use of evolving technology called “Internet of Things”. In our proposed system, we shall design a system which will serve two most important use cases. First, to prevent the entry of animals into the farm so that the crops can be protected. Second, the system will monitor each factor that is responsible for maintaining the fertility of the soil like temperature, humidity, gases, and moisture. To show the reading of different sensors to the user, we will make use of ThingSpeak. The system will be integrated with ThingSpeak framework via different APIs for writing and reading data to and from ThingSpeak respectively.