Sustainability and Impactness of Smart-Agri Architecture on Environment

Agriculture is an innovative way of cultivating crops where the resources are optimized to reduce the harmful impacts on environment and to get better crop yields. India has immense opportunities to make use of the potential of Agri-Tech solutions as majority of farmers possess small land holdings. Ecological sustainability is another significant challenge currently needed to be addressed. The paper propose a Smart-Agri architecture based on digital systems with available technologies for incorporating the factors required for better crop yield and to maintain a sustainable ecosystem. The architecture specifically caters to the need of Small Cardamom which is grown in hilly regions and is particularly much delicate to the climate changes. Due to the rampant use of fertilizers and pesticides, lot of degradation has happened to the Cardamom hill reserve zones over past few decades. In the system, data is to be collected from different parts of a farm using mesh connected ZigBee network making a low-power framework, to monitor soil and plant health and analyze data for finding implications to sort out recommendations meeting sustainability and crop goals. The proposed architecture aims to optimize the resources for small farms by assessing the needs of farmlands. This helps to mitigate the adverse effects on nature.