Intelligent soil quality monitoring system for judicious irrigation

Abstract

As the world population increases exponentially, it is mandatory that we adopt modern agricultural practices to meet food safety demands. Intelligent sensor networks acquire data about soil regarding moisture and nutrient deficiency. This data can be employed to automate irrigation and alert farmer about nutrient deficiency. The data obtained from soil is pushed to the cloud. Great processing capabilities makes cloud storage an important solution to store the vast amount of data generated by the wireless sensor network, which can also be viewed by the farmer through a Smartphone application. This paper proposes and evaluates on a real deployment of wireless sensor network based on an Internet of things platform.