Smart Irrigation System using Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine Learning

Despite the world being in 21
^st
century most of the developing and under-developed nation use traditional method for farming we requires tremendous energy and hectic schedule from a small scale farmer with a very measly return in terms of profit moreover the water wastage and continuous monitoring required to keep check in plants condition is just unjustified but with 58% of population having agriculture as primary income source most of the Indian farmers having extremely low income it seems impossible for them to hop over costly machineries. But now with the cost-effective processors out there in the market can provide a solution to all these issues faced by Indian farmers. With exponential progress of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the market smart irrigation systems are becoming a new trend. This paper proposes design and theory of one such smart irrigation system using NodeMCU to wirelessly operate a network of irrigation modules by irrigating the field when required by measuring the water content of soil and keep checking condition of plant using a camera this paper also provide insight of how to keep safe integrity of data which travels from NodeMCU to user smartphone using ciphering methods and by keeping proposed system reliable and cost effective.