An IoT Instrumented Smart Agricultural Monitoring and Irrigation System

Abstract

These days, in the agriculture sector farmers are facing major problems regarding irrigation. Due to over- irrigation and under-irrigation, the crops can be damaged. This work development of an IoT instrumented smart agricultural monitoring and irrigation system. In this paper, an IoT platform based on ThingSpeak and NodeMCU is demonstrated, which will help the farmer to control the irrigation by using a PC or smartphone from anywhere and anytime, to monitoring the moisture and temperature parameter and reduce his efforts and also to optimize the use of water. Sensors value is sent to the IoT platform and if a value is below the threshold a notification will be sent to the user through E-mail to take suitable action.