期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
电子版ISSN：0975-9646
出版年度：2011
卷号：2
期号：6
页码：2650-2658
出版社：TechScience Publications
摘要：The upsurge in the expansion of technology and new scientific innovations extended its boom even in farming, coining “precision agriculture”. Hitherto, the agricultural practices followed by the farmers are arduous, involving a great physical effort from the side of farmers. The usage of different kinds of sensors and their efficient way of networking in the agricultural fields, eases the work of farmers in the cultivation. This in turn, improves the quality of food grains, reduction in the use of the pesticides and fertilizers, optimal usage of natural resources, thereby increasing the overall profits of the farmers. Here we are taking into account some of the problems like wastage of the natural resources, power management in the wireless sensor networking (WSN). For the identified problems, we are thereby proposing some of the ideas concerning the sensors that could effectively procure the information regarding temperature, humidity and soil moisture and also some of the Bio-sensors for detecting the nutrients content in the soil of the agricultural fields. Also, we discussed the building up of an architecture for the networking of these sensors, along with the specifications of the components being used as a part of this smart sensor system. Thus the hardware platform is touched, by considering the features of different micro-controllers for acquiring the sensor information in real time, processing, sending and receiving information from fields to the farmers through SMS. The expected results of this paper will reflect the optimal use of water and electricity, increased quality of food grains, reduced usage of pesticides and fertilizers, and thus reduced environmental pollution besides easing the work of farmers.
