EEWMP: An IoT-Based Energy-Efficient Water Management Platform for Smart Irrigation

Abstract

Precision agriculture is now essential in today’s world, especially for countries with limited water resources, fertile land, and enormous population. Smart irrigation systems can help countries efficiently utilize fresh water and use the excess water for barren lands. Smart water management platform (SWAMP) is an IoT-based smart irrigation project designed for efficient freshwater utilization in agriculture. The primary aim of SWAMP is to auto manage water reserves, distribution, and consumption of various levels, avoid over-irrigation and under-irrigation problems, and auto manage time to maximize production. This research proposed an energy-efficient water management platform (EEWMP), an improved version of SWAMP. EEWMP is an IoT-based smart irrigation system that uses field-deployed sensors, sinks, fusion centres, and open-source clouds. Both models’ performance is evaluated in energy consumption, network stability period, packet sent to destination, and packet delivery ratio. The experimental results show that EEWMP consumes 30% less energy and increases network stability twice than SWAMP. EEWMP can be used in different irrigation models such as drip irrigation, sprinkler irrigation, surface irrigation, and lateral move irrigation with subtle alterations. Moreover, it can also be used in small farms of third-world countries with their existing communication infrastructures such as 2G or 3G.

An overview of smart irrigation systems using IoT

“…The precision irrigation systems could be used to control the changing environmental circumstances in an adaptive manner. Various machine learning applications have been studied in literature, namely crop management [72] , livestock management [88] , water management [89] and soil management [46] .…”

A Critical Review for Real-Time Continuous Soil Monitoring: Advantages, Challenges, and Perspectives

“…242 For example, smart water management platform (SWAMP) is an IoT-based irrigation project designed to automatically manage water reserves, distribution, and consumption, and avoid overirrigation/under-irrigation, which has improved energy-efficient water management by 30%. 243 6.2. Sensor Data Processing/Control.…”

“…In terms of sensor networks, sensor array consisting of multiple pieces of low-cost miniature sensors connected with Internet of Things (IoT) can be deployed to collect and exchange multiple types of sensor data, boost sensor-to-sensor communication, and make optimal decisions but with less human interaction . For example, smart water management platform (SWAMP) is an IoT-based irrigation project designed to automatically manage water reserves, distribution, and consumption, and avoid over-irrigation/under-irrigation, which has improved energy-efficient water management by 30% …”

IoT-Based Water Management Systems: Survey and Future Research Direction

“…The authors of [28] indicated that the increase in power consumption due to the integration of the proposed Blockchain architecture required additional 6% of energy as compared to classical systems that operate without the Blockchain inclusion; however such a system provides trusted sensing devices over public Blockchain networks. A smart irrigation system was proposed in [30] to be suitable for drip, sprinkler ,surface ,and lateral irrigation models.…”