Food is the major source for the existence of the mankind. In order to meet the food requirements for the ever increasing population, the quantity of the food production has to be increased maintaining the quality standards. Agriculture is one such major sector which provides the food for mankind. It not only provides food but also supplies raw materials for industries. Implementation of advanced technologies such as Internet of Things in agriculture helps in improving the production with limited resources. The key parameter for the sustainable agriculture is moisture content available for the crop from the soil. This can be supplied efficiently by controlling the irrigation process. In this system an intelligent agriculture monitoring system with multiple wireless monitoring sensor nodes are used at different locations to monitor the parameters such as temperature, moisture content in the soil, humidity and rainfall. The data from the various sensors is aggregated at each node and transmitted to the coordinator station using long range transceiver. The data received at the coordinator station is subjected to a rule based decision making process to efficiently control the irrigation process. Also motor protection against the dry run was implemented, which not only protects the motor from break down but also avoids the unwanted power consumption. All the live data is in turn uploaded to the cloud so that the user can have a track of the current status of his farm at any time.
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