Automated Drip Irrigation System Using Cloud Computing

Abstract

Agriculture uses 85% of available freshwater resources worldwide and this percentage will continue to be dominant in water consumption because of population growth and increased food demand. In India agriculture, primarily depends on the monsoon, which is not a sufficient source of water. So irrigation is employed in the agriculture area. This paper targets to offer a cloud based drip irrigation system to aid the farmers. The proposed system uses a microcontroller, sensors, and a cloud server to provide real time network with field over a Wi-Fi network. The proposed system aims to conserve water up to a large extent by providing automatic and manual modes of irrigation. The system can be monitored by the user on an android application.