Smart Farm Monitoring Using Internet of Things and LoRa Technology Based on Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

In the recent years there has been rapid evolution in Smart farming and IOT. Farmers are interested in applying new technologies to their farm field to increase their crop yield, but only few farmers are able to apply this to their crop field due to many reasons like excessive cost, lack of user friendliness. Most wireless communication innovations have high utilization of power and cover small transmission distance and therefore do not satisfy the prerequisites required for applications on IoT’s for establishing networks. Consequently, LoRa technology has been proposed. LoRa™ is a low power wide area wireless network (LPWAN) protocol mainly used for applications based on Internet of Things (IoTs) technology. LPWAN ia a viable empowering innovation for largescale wireless sensor networks (WSNs). This paper proposes Monitoring of crop field and Automatic irrigation using LoRa technology.