An IoT Based Dam Water Management System for Agriculture

Abstract

Water plays an important role in our day to day life in various fields. Introduction of new methods to solve the water-related problems includes adaptive management, remote sensing with the new concepts such as water security, global integration of information, etc. In this paper, we present an Internet of Things (IoT) based dam water management system (IoT-DWM) for reducing the wastage of water. The proposed IoT-DWM consists of various parts such as field sensing section, IoT network section, and dam control section, etc. The real data can be observed through different sensors placed in the agriculture area and updated it in the cloud. The dam controller receives the real data of the particular area and estimates the water requirement. The water requirement will vary depending upon the crop cultivated in that area. The controller considers different parameters such as types of crop in that area, temperature, humidity, and wind speed while estimating the requirement of water. The simulation result shows that the proposed IoT-DWM provides better results, save water in a considerable amount and leads to reduced water scarcity.