A SYSTEM FOR IOT ENABLED PRECISION AGRICULTURE AND MICROCLIMATE SENSING IN DROUGHT AFFECTED AREA

Fecha de publicación: 02/07/2021
Fuente: Wipo "precision agriculture"
Precision agriculture is collecting local environmental data about an agricultural land and use the information to take intelligent decision to optimize the resource utilization. This is very important in increasing the yietd and reducing the cost of farming. The invention disclosed here addresses this problem through loT enabled microclimate sensing module. The agricultural land under consideration is divided into different sectors and each sector is fïtted with a microclimate sensing module. The microclimate sensing module collects environmental data from each sector and sends it to the central module. Efficiënt low power strategy is implemented in the invention through periodic collection of data. A dedicated RF channel is used to send the data to the central module. The central module periodically sends the data to a central intelligent controller vvhich is the heart of the invention. The central intelligent module is a mechanism which takes decisions based on the environmental data, user inputs and learning from the previous decision. The central intelligent module also sends the information about the data and decision to the user terminal which can be a mobile application or a dedicated handheld device. Based on the automated decision, the central intelligent module then activates the actuators and. the effect of present decision is stored for future calculations.