IOSR Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering (IOSR-JECE) e-ISSN: 2278-2834,p- ISSN: 2278-8735.Volume 11, Issue 1, Ver.II (Jan. - Feb .2016), PP 01-04 www.iosrjournals.org DOI: 10.9790/2834-11120104 www.iosrjournals.org 1 | Page A Survey on IOT based Digital Agriculture Monitoring System and Their impact on optimal utilization of Resources Prosanjeet J. Sarkar, Satyanarayana Chanagala Dept. of Electronics and Communication Ballarpur Institute of Technology Bamni Ballarpur (M.H), India Principal, BIT Polytechnic Ballarpur Institute of Technology Bamni Ballarpur (M.H), India Abstract: IoT is continuously one of the hottest areas that are developing at a fire speed, where all things which are used in regular life connected with the internet and can be monitored and can be operated remotely. IoT has many applications in all domains, one of the wonderful applications is in agriculture domain. Monitoring of environment parameter is very essential for maximizing the yield. In particular, monitoring various agriculture parameters such as temperature, moisture, humidity, Ph value of soli and along with other parameter which affect the crops. A traditional way of measuring these agriculture parameters means manual measurements, monitoring them at various levels and at different times. This paper deals with remote monitoring system based on IoT protocol used by different researchers to increase agriculture production and optimal utilization of resources along with the proposed system which is useful in monitoring data. Keywords: IOT (Internet of things); wireless sensor network; IoT protocol; Bluetooth; ZigBee; GSM; Wi-Fi; FPGA I. Introduction Agriculture is one of the important part for development the country’s economy. Agriculture is the basic thing for food and raw material for the living on the earth. The agriculture plays an important role in providing large scale employment. Agriculture development is necessary for the development of countries. Agriculture continues play an important role for the growth of economies. Three fourths of the India population workforce is related with agriculture and its allied fileds. In most of the countrys, farmers use traditional ways of farming. The most farmers observed that the yield of crops and fruits have not been increasing in contrary yield is decreasing day after day. In India, Vidharbha area of Maharashtra state is facing the same problem. More development can be possible in agriculture with automation. It will replace human by machine that could result in much more information about agricultural environment,reduces labor intensity in farm, utilise agriculture resources reasonably, reduces the production cost and would result in improved ecological environment [1]. The agriculture concern on three major areas that is inadequate water supply (irrigation), attack of crops by pests and insects and thirdly failure in properly storing the produce which in turn might be attacked by pests and rodent [2]. Therefore there is need to grab technology for the solution for the above causes and improve the production. The concept of IOT can be used in agriculture field. In this, smart node involves the use of sensors, RFID, GSM/GPS, ZigBee and other wireless device with internet stack in built into the device for sensing the agriculture parameter and send to the base station or internet. The wireless sensor network collects data provide information about environment parameter transmitted to the cloud which is helpful for monitoring and analysis remotely. In agriculture domain researchers have proposed architecture based on IoT for monitoring agriculture management system [3,4]. This paper provides the information related to basic concept of IoT and previous work that had been done in the field of agriculture using IoT and wireless sensor network for monitoring and controlling the agriculture parameters. II. Generalized concept of IoT Bill Gates wrote a book -“The road ahead” in 1995, in this book he has brought up the concept about connection of “thing to thing” means connection between machine to machine. EPCglobal united consists of more than 100 enterprises and created the international Telecommunication Union and formally brought up the concept of IoT , the general concept of ITU is the technology of IoT mainly solve the interconnection problem between thing to thing, human to thing, and human to human [3].By now, there is no precise definition about Internet of things. There is a general definition of IoT which is defined as a kind of network that can connect object with network for information exchange and communication to realize intelligent identification, location and tracking, monitoring and management [1]. IoT can consist of sensor device (such as RFID, Bluetooth, ZigBee, GSM, RS, Laser, scanner, Wi-Fi) and these devices are capable of collecting information about themselves, their environment and associated devices and communicate this information to other devices and system via the all connecting internet shown in fig. 1.