Web-based monitoring of an automated fertigation system: An IoT application

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging system that incorporates many technologies from different areas. In this paper, we present the implementation of IoT in an agriculture industry, particularly in monitoring an automated fertigation system. The monitoring system comprises a web-based system , an automatic fertigation system and a communication network. The main focus of this paper is on the web-based system where the data from the SQLite database is used in the web-GUI to display parameters such as the status of water level, the flow condition of valves and pipes as well as the overall operation of automated fertigation system. The paper also described on how farmers can access the website, set fertigation schedule and determine fertilizer's formulation. Different from others, this system is equipped with emergency mode to stop the fertigation system which can be controlled directly from the website. Our method uses a microprocessor to handle the databases, web-GUI and control communications between the fertigation system and the web-based system. This system will ease farmers in managing their automated fertigation system virtually using their mobile devices.

IoT-Based Smart Irrigation Systems: An Overview on the Recent Trends on Sensors and IoT Systems for Irrigation in Precision Agriculture

“…Those 83 include different levels of detail, there are 49 papers that only indicate that there are motor/pumps in their system (40 paper) or valves (nine papers) without more detail. From those papers which offer more details, 19 of them include sprinklers (the most used system) [28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46], eight use drip irrigation [4,[47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54], two propose the utilization of sprayers [4,55], and the rest use a very specific irrigation systems (robots [56], pivot [14], rain gun [57] or it can be applied to multiple systems [58]). In conjunction with the principal irrigation system, three papers propose the use of a fogging system [41,43,51] and two papers propose the use of fertigation in their systems [42,52].…”

“…The most common use of irrigation systems is in outdoor agriculture, 50% of the proposed systems are for outdoor agriculture. Among this outdoor agriculture cases [14,29,31,32,38,40,42,[46][47][48]52,[59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67], some papers specify the agriculture products in more detail: general cereal [14], rice [48,59], spinach, beans, carrots, walnuts, corn, barley and maize [47], and multi-height fields [60]. In addition, among the 14 papers about greenhouses [28,33,39,41,45,51,[68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75], five of them specify the type of crop.…”

A New Method for Battery Lifetime Estimation Using Experimental Testbed for Zigbee Wireless Technology

“…Pictures of the farming plot can be obtained from sensor networks to farmers regardless of their locations. The sensor networks can manage automatic plant watering based on the soil water content [35]. Other information of the soil such as humidity, temperature, and potential of hydrogen (pH) level can be sent to farmer's monitoring application either on mobile or web in a real-time manner [36].…”

Wireless Sensor Networks Based-Internet of Thing for Agro-Climatic Parameters Monitoring and Real-Time Data Acquisition

“…The implementation of an automated fertigation web based monitoring: An IoT application was developed by Abidin and Ibrahim [11]. The IoT based monitoring system focuses on the automatic fertigation system in agricultural field, and access data on the web application.…”