MONITORING OF RICE CROPS USING GPRS AND WIRELESS SENSORS FOR EFFICIENT USE OF WATER AND ELECTRICITY

Agriculture may be the worldwide prime occupation of human being, 64% of total available land is occupied by the agriculture, and also it consumes eighty five percent of accessible freshwater. The machine works based on the algorithm developed for watering the crop. The board comes with an Ethernet interface and runs the straightforward data server. Hence coordinator collects the information over Sigsbee wireless communication protocol and allow user to watch the information from the internet browser. User can make the irrigation system off or on remotely. The machine supplies a web interface tithe user so the user can control and monitor the system remotely. Within this paper, Raspberry Pi can be used being an embedded Linux board that is designed in line with the arm 11microcontroller architecture. Embedded Linux board makes the communication with all of distributed sensor nodes put into the farm through Sigsbee protocol and itself behave as a coordinated node within the wireless sensor network. This paper presents an automation of farm irrigation system utilizing a wireless sensor network (WSN) and embedded Linux board. Each sensor node includes soil moisture and soil temperature sensor and something SigsbeeAntenna device for communication using the coordinator node. Raspberry Pi stores collected data within the database and analyzes the stored data. The machine will reduce water consumption and providing uniform water to the crop leads to growing yield.