IoT-Based Low-Cost Automated
Irrigation System for Smart Farming
Tajim Md. Niamat Ullah Akhund, Nishat Tasnim Newaz, Zahura Zaman,
Atia Sultana, Alistair Barros, and Md Whaiduzzaman
Abstract In this research, we present a low-cost intelligent irrigation system for
farming. Nowadays, farming is shifted to automated and remote monitoring and
management systems integrated with Cloud, Fog, and IoT networks. Our developed
prototype can measure water level, temperature, and humidity with a hardware sensor
and micro-controller unit. We use different sensors to take different readings and
values to decide to turn on or off the motor. We provide essential algorithm and
flowchart to explain the system. Our IoT-application-based automated developed
system makes an automated system for irrigation and provides notification via mobile
SMS to inform us of the irrigation field’s details remotely.
Keywords IoT · Smart farming · Smart irrigation · SMS notification · SIM
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1 Introduction
Agriculture is still one of the main GDP growth and national number one activities
in many countries. Nowadays significant amount of people depend on farming and
agriculture worldwide Therefore, farming and agriculture have a strong impact on our
food chain and economic growth and activities nationally and internationally. Thus,
we are still largely depend on the farming and agriculture for essential food supply
and trade. This work will result a system which will help farmers is agriculture.
However, in many countries, worldwide agriculture and farming related tasks are
not fully automated. Our farmers are suffering from various problem. Although they
Tajim Md. N. Akhund (B ) · Z. Zaman · A. Sultana
Department of CSE, Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Tajim Md. N. Akhund · N. T. Newaz · M. Whaiduzzaman
Institute of Information Technology, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
A. Barros · M. Whaiduzzaman
School of Information Systems, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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