Design and Implementation of Smart Agricultural Environment Using IoT Technology

Abstract

Agriculture plays a significant role in food production. Due to the huge increase in world’s population, it is essential to monitor the plant performance in order to meet the increase of food demand. One of the technologies that evolved recently is Internet of Things (IoT), this technology enables the plants to talk and express their needs in order to avoid the excess or less amount of needed resources. Monitoring plants’ performance using IoT technology requires high energy due to the large number of connected devices in wireless area networks. Using IoT in agricultural applications is critical due to the problems that appear in agriculture environments. Supplying the network devices by common power lines are very difficult in agricultural environment so sensors are powered mainly by batteries. One of the critical problems also is replacing the batteries after drainage because sensors are sometimes mounted in unreachable points in agriculture environment. In this study an energy efficient algorithm is introduced using intelligent load scheduling, solar power and battery, this algorithm solved the battery drainage problem. The study focuses on choosing the optimum sleep duration for loads that will not affect the system operation as its calculation depends on the study of three main parameters