Development of a web-based weather station for irrigation scheduling

Abstract

Nowadays, water has become a highly precious resource due to its growing supply around the world. Policy makers, agronomists, farmers are facing challenges in reducing water consumption and making the best irrigation schedules. In order to support them, recent advances in decision support making and wireless sensor technologies offer vast opportunities for agriculture sector development. The present paper aims at the realization of a monitoring Web-Based Decision Support System communicating with a Wireless Sensor Network for irrigation scheduling in developing countries context. The system goes further and supports the farmer for restructuring agriculture land using Geographic Information System maps and provides the information needed as the climate and soil measures referring to mathematical methods and algorithms as the Food and Agriculture Organization's Penman-Monteith method. The analysis, design and implementation of the this system are presented to adapt changes of crop design, field location and irrigation patterns taking into account all particularities of such environments constraints as the field conditions, devices availability, etc.