IoT adoption to address water level issues for paddy plantation in IBTE Agro.

Rice is the staple food of Brunei Darussalam, but the country is far from reaching self-sufficiency in producing rice. As a result, the country relies very much on importing rice to meet the demand. The situation is aggravating due to the issues currently faced which results in low rice production yield. One of them is related to water irrigation. This problem combined with climate changes affect the water level both in the field and the reservoir. The water level in the reservoirs is seen to affect the irrigation efficiency thus the rice production yields. And with unpredictable climate changes and irregularity of water level of the reservoirs, farmers are struggling with the irrigation of growing paddy. With the help of advanced technologies, this problem can be overcome by introducing IoTs to the area to ensure that farmers will be well informed and therefore better prepared. The IoTs and sensor nodes will monitor the weather, paddy field conditions and water level of the reservoirs and send the data to cloud for storage and analysis. The farmers can use the data for better management of the paddy fields and high production yields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]