Background:

When the word ‘agriculture’ comes up the image of hard working, intense effort and time consumption comes up, but yes it does as in the last 50 years growth of food has increased more than now and the same will happen in the next 50 years. Farmers are suffering with waste of food because of many issues like less sunlights or the nutrients needed for the crops are not efficient, due to weather conditions and not rain for the crops.

This blog is going to highlight the potential of the IoT and geo fencing sensors using GPS in agriculture. The sensors are placed across the farm to calculate the overall condition of soil for better farming.This sensors will analyse the farm, collect data and store it in the database. The sensors will calculate the soil fertility, colour of crops and leaf this will determine how much fertiliser can be made from the waste of the farm. It helps in monitoring the health of soil so that they can eliminate the depletion of nutrients and maintain the health of soil. This will be stress free farming as it will notify the farmer about the level of fertility needed for the crops.

Fig: Farming using IOT.

Aim: 

• To navigate the waste around the field and display the places of waste which can be collected to convert into fertiliser.
• To check the level of nutrients in the soil for the better yields.
• To monitor the health of soil, colour of crop and leaves, level of chemicals involved in soil.

In future it is possible that we will need 60%-80% more food globally as population is growing and lands are limited so we need a good techniques which will make it equal. Using IoT the business will be more clear and closer to the technique which will be used. This can be developed in workplace project as many of them will be involved, the companies of sensors and automated machines, IT developers working on IoT and farmers who will do final checks. The sensors will be trained to detect the waste settled on ground collect it and store in pits. Our aim to focus on detecting and gathering waste into the pit which are created to develop fertilisers. It is because while farming we get a lot of waste in every phase saving that waste and decomposing it to make fertiliser, this will save expenses of purchasing fertiliser by generating own fresh fertiliser.

Hi myself Dishali Khilari, I am currently pursing my Masters degree in IT from Charles Sturt University. I choose my field in IT as I have keen interest into innovative things. My primary interest is in development and networking of the software and secondary interest in agriculture as I was always fascinated with the farming and cultivation of foods so I choosed  this topic “The generation of organic farm fertiliser with the help of IoT and Automation” as my interest in literature review where I can try to work on both of my interests.