Modular Multi Node Sensor Based Precision Farming for the Improved Performance of Crops

Abstract

In recent years, wireless sensor network (WSN) is frequently used in many applicatios such as monitoring of water quality, monitoring of air, and farming. In the WSN system, all the  nodes are connected together by wireless communication. All the devices can be disciplined and controlled over the network by using Internet of Things (IOT). So,Combining WSN and IOT is a excellent method to build a better precision farming or agriculture. The Indonesia is an farming country and it uses modern technology to support smart farming or precision agriculture system to monitor, control and to increase agriculture production. Many innovative works are done to build a precision farming such as introduction of WSN in smart irrigation systems, robot based farming using Arduino UNO , multi- node sensor for precision farming, etc. In this research, the multi-node sensor is used depending upon the state of land farming. The challenging aim of this paper is about connecteing a multi-node sensor together with wireless network and building a cloud server to function data storage. Basically the system is divided into seven node sensors, which is again seperated into three different groups such as land node, environment node, and actuator node. Each node consists of multi- sensor, a controller and wireless module. The Aurdino UNO board and  and wireless module is used in master station. The wireless network based Zigbee protocol is used for Communication between the master station and all the sensor nodes. Depending upon the threshold value of the critical sensor the system is operated in the closed loop.