Smart agriculture automation made agricultural work easier and increase agricultural productivity.

Smart agriculture and agricultural automation make agricultural work easier and increase agricultural productivity.

Precision agriculture allows farmers to collect and process data in real time, to make the best decisions regarding planting, fertilization and harvesting of crops.

Agriculture is an important sector in the economy of the country. It meets the demand for food of a nation. Sensors play an important role in this area. These make agriculture work easier and increase agricultural productivity.

Agriculture is using computer hardware, software, electronic components and control systems. Some related fields are agronomy, horticulture, veterinary and food processing. Integrating sensitive, electronics, control and power systems and ICT engineering for agriculture is an important impetus for delivering better food supply and sustainable energy production without increasing burden on a limited fertile land bank. This finding of non-traditional technologies is crucial for improving global farming.

Smart agriculture, also known as precision agriculture, allows farmers to maximize yields using minimal resources such as water, fertilizers and seeds. By deploying sensors and mapping fields, they can understand their micro-scale, conserve resources and minimize the adverse impact on the environment.




The roots of smart agriculture go back to the 1980s, when the Global Positioning System (GPS) capability became accessible to civilian use. Once farmers are able to accurately assess their crop yields, they can monitor and apply fertilizer and weed treatments only in the areas they need.

During the 1990s, early precision agricultural users adopted crop yield monitoring to generate fertilizer and pH improvement recommendations. As more variables can be measured and entered into crop models, more precise recommendations can be made for fertilizer application, water and even crop yield harvesting.
Agricultural Weather Station
These are self-contained units kept at various locations throughout the agricultural sector. These stations have many sensors that are suitable for local crops and climates. Information such as air temperature, soil temperature at different depths, rainfall, leaf wetness, chlorophyll, wind speed, dew point temperature, wind direction, relative humidity, solar radiation and atmospheric pressure are measured and recorded at predetermined levels. Is. This data is analyzed and sent to the central data server at wirelessly programmed intervals. Stations are portable and less expensive, and available at attractive prices for farms of all sizes.
Smartphone device
Many smartphone devices can be customized for farming applications. For example, crop and soil observations can be logged as pictures, pin-pointing locations, soil colors, water, plant leaves and light properties.
Tools like camera, GPS, microphone, accelerometer, gyroscope and smartphone application can help a lot of farmers. Using them, they can identify and diagnose crop diseases. They can also calculate the amount of fertilizer required, and study the soil and water.

In developing countries, about 500 million small farms produce more than 80 percent of the total food consumed. Agricultural sensors are becoming more widely accessible worldwide. According to the UN launch, the demand for food worldwide will increase by 50 percent by 2050, and as such, the demand for precision agricultural technologies for farmers will be increased.

Crop breeders, researchers and representatives of universities and industries have discussed new and improved methods of breeding resistant and highly productive crops.

Harvest has to be expanded to feed the growing world population over the next decades. To achieve the target without expanding cultivable areas at the expense of the environment, agricultural economists agree that agricultural sensors can help a lot in this direction.
Use of agricultural sensors in India
Many agricultural sensor-based devices have been developed by the agro-based electronic industries. For example, the Waspmote Agricultural Board developed in India allows the monitoring of many environmental standards associated with a wide range of applications. For this, it is provided with sensors to measure air and soil temperature, humidity, solar radiation, wind speed and direction, precipitation, atmospheric pressure, leaf wetness, and fruit or trunk diameter.

Up to 14 sensors can be connected to a dendrometer (the device used to measure trees) at the same time. To extend the device's durability after deployment, the device is endowed with a solid-state switch, which facilitates accurate regulation of its power, prolonging battery life.

Agricultural sensors in India are slowly gaining a foothold. Vertical farming is becoming popular in smart cities. Drones are being used in large scale farming for pesticides and pesticide spraying. However, these sensor-based devices are not popular in India. They need government assistance and huge subsidy on prices.

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has developed an Android-based application that allows agricultural crops to grow due to hail