SMART IRRIGATION SYSTEMS AND WEBSITE-BASED PLATFORM FOR FARMER WELFARE

SMART IRRIGATION SYSTEMS AND WEBSITE-BASED PLATFORM FOR FARMER WELFARE

Ms. Anusha Jain¹, Mr. Santosh Vishwanathan¹, Ms. Swetha S², Ms. Kavitha S N²

Dr. Praveen Kumar Gupta, Ms. Rashmi R²

¹B.E Student, Department of Information Science and Engineering, RV College of Engineering^®, Bengaluru

²Asst. Professor, Department of Information Science and Engineering, RV College of Engineering^®, Bengaluru

³Asst. Professor, Department of Biotechnology, RV College of Engineering^®, Bengaluru

ABSTRACT

Agriculture has a major impact on the Indian economy with the highest employment ratio than any sector of the country. Currently, most of the traditional agricultural practices and farming methods are manual, which results in farmers not realizing their maximum productivity often due to increasing labour costs, inefficient use of water sources leading to wastage of water, inadequate soil moisture content subsequently leading to food insecurity of the country. This research paper aims to solve this problem by developing a full-fledged web application based platform that has the capacity to associate itself with Microcontroller-based Automated Irrigation System which schedules the irrigation of crops based on real-time soil moisture content employing soil moisture sensors centric to the crop’s requirements using WSN (Wireless Sensor Networks) & M2M (Machine To Machine Communication) concepts, thus optimising the use of the available limited water resource, thereby maximizing the crop yield. This robust automated irrigation system provides end-to-end automation of Irrigation of crops at any circumstances such as droughts, irregular rainfall patterns, extreme weather conditions etc. This microcontroller-based system integrated with a user-friendly and responsive web platform will be capable of achieving a nationwide united farming community and ensuring the welfare of farmers. This platform is designed to equip farmers with prerequisite knowledge on tech and latest farming practices in general. In order to achieve this, MailChimp mailing service is used through which interested farmers/individuals' email id will be recorded and curated articles on innovations in the world of agriculture will be provided to the farmers via e-mail. In this proposed system, a service is enabled on the web platform where nearby crop vendors will be able to enter their pickup locations, accepted prices and other relevant information which will enable farmers to choose their vendors wisely. Along with this we have created a blogging service which will enable farmers and agricultural enthusiasts to share experiences, helpful knowledge, hardships etc. with the entire farming community. Implementation of the proposed system into a scalable application by incorporation of SAAS cloud architecture has also been envisioned in this system.

KEYWORDS

Web Application, APIs, Database, WSN (Wireless Sensor Networks), M2M (M/C to M/C Communication), Automation, Irrigation System, Sustainability, SAAS (Software As a Service), Soil moisture sensor