A Novel Model for Optimization of Resource Utilization in Smart Agriculture System Using IoT (SMAIoT)

Many Countries have rich resources of land, rivers, groundwater, environment and fertilizers availability. Agriculture is the main source of income for several country’s people. Since the last few decades, there are few resource shortages like groundwater, river water. People are unaware of proper utilization of available valuable resources, which leads to use more resources for less crop production. One of the solutions of this problem is to design and implement an IoT based smart framework for agriculture. In this paper, we have proposed a smart agriculture framework to monitor different types of low cost IoT sensors-devices, which collects data from soil, air, water, insects and make appropriate decisions based on analysis of sensors data. Novel contribution of our proposed approach is to automate tasks of irrigation, fertigation, pest detection, pesticide spray in a scientific way with minimal farmer’s intervention in one framework. This paper contains detailed implementation steps and result of smart irrigation module of our framework.