The growing world population necessitates more efficient food production, particularly in agriculture. The traditional irrigation techniques usually result in overwatering or underwatering, which wastes energy and water and reduces agricultural productivity. The smart agriculture optimizes food production, resource management, and labor. This study introduces an intelligent irrigation and monitoring system that uses the Internet of Things (IoT) to automate water pump management and monitor sun light, temperature, and humidity levels without human interaction. The system's hardware components include a soil moisture sensor, sun light sensor, temperature and humidity (DHT11) sensor, ESP32 microcontroller, and pump motor. The sensors are in charge of gathering the information that the ESP32 microcontroller needs in order to properly operate the pump motor.To operate and monitor data from the sensors remotely, the ESP32 is also integrated with the well-known Ubidots server via a wireless sensor network. Initially, sensors such as DHT11, soil moisture, and sunlight level collect data from the field and send it to the ESP32 microcontroller. The microcontroller then compares the received data to the previously stored data. If the values are greater than the threshold, the associated devices turn on and update the sensor value and pump motor condition to the Ubidots server.
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Internet of Thinks (IoT) based Smart Agriculture Irrigation and Monitoring System using Ubidots Server
Published:
26 November 2024
by MDPI
in 11th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications
session Smart Agriculture Sensors
https://doi.org/10.3390/ecsa-11-20528
(registering DOI)
Abstract:
Keywords: Internet of Things; Smart agriculture, Sensors; ESP32 Microcontroller