Smart Irrigation System for Wheat in Southern Punjab Using IOT-based Wireless Technology

Abstract

Agriculture is an important aspect of Pakistan economy. It employs almost 60% of population and generates one-third of exports per year. State of the art agriculture development highlights modern trends to overcome farmer difficulties faced by implementing traditional methods. The general purpose is to integrate farming on agriculture using IoT technology based on Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). This research work focuses on wheat as cultivation and irrigation. The improvement in wheat production demands special conditions, such as temperature and humidity level 50-60%. The proposed system remotely monitors growth of wheat crops using wireless communication. The monitoring system is based on ESP8266 (microcontroller) and DHT11 sensor to read the temperature and humidity level of crops under remote observation model. Moreover, GSM module transmits message to the farmer regarding environmental parameters impact on wheat crop. If humidity level goes up or down from its optimum range then farmer adopts the precautionary measures to maintain humidity within desired range. This model prevents the crop from environmental losses and increase the productivity of crops in south Punjab region.