Cloud Monitoring System for Agriculture using Internet of Things

The Internet Of Things (IoT) has proved to be a major turnover in many realms of our day-to-day lives such as smart home automation, health - care amenities, in automobile industries and so on. One of these affected spheres, which has drifted to an entire new level of development on the influx of IoT to the world, is the Agriculture and Farming industries. To monitor the productive growth of the crop cultivation, the constant and real-time data pertinent to the crops is required. This is not possible for a farmer in real-life scenarios. Also, the farmer cannot access and control the field activities from another place and therefore has to be present at the field. Here, IoT comes to the rescue. At present, the IoT, making use of the accessible IoT sensors, meets the requirements of a more conducive way to gather real-time data associated with the moisture content of the soil and the stature of the crops. The gathered massive data is first stored and then, analyzed and certain measures are adopted to help the farmers to combat each of the difficulties which he faces at the field and thus, the farmer becomes successful in securing the prolific cultivation of the crops. The IoT is also implemented in putting up drones to assist with work such as spreading pesticide and insecticide sprays and also to administer effectively the explicit working hours of the irrigation tanks and motors in conformity with the demand of the crops. This study has implemented a smart soil conditions monitoring system in which the IoT sensors located in the field furnishes the demanded data, processes it and advances it into the PUBSUB, from where the data flows to get stored in the Google Cloud Console which is a virtual store to prevent data loss and difficulties in maintaining data storage offline. From here, the data now, is sent to the prediction module where the appropriate analyzation is accomplished and it flows then, to the user interface for its ensuing application.