Microcontroller based Smart Agriculture System

Abstract

Agriculture plays a vital role in the economics and provides food and fabrics. Usage of pesticides should be reduced as it is harmful to humankind as well as environment. Most the farmers are using pesticides to kill the insects. This paper describes different ways to reduce pesticides to kill the insects. Light traps could solve this problem by attracting the insects that are not killed even when the pesticides are used. This paper also explains how to minimize pesticides as well as flying insects. Most of the flying insects may escape while s praying the liquid type pesticides, whereas these insects will be attracted towards ultra violet lights during the knights and there by this research work is initiated to attract cretin type of flying insects. Solar energy is used to energize the light automatically during the dark and the same light will be de-energized automatically in early morning. The embedded system designed with 89c2051 microcontroller is programmed to read the solar panel voltage continuously and depending up on these voltage levels light will be controlled automatically to attract more types of insects, here the light is designed with two different LED's, UV LED's and white high-glow LEDs are used and these lights will be energized one bunch after another bunch with a time delay of 5 minutes each. This study also measures the parameters like moisture and temperature by using FSP8266 module. A Wi-Fi controller application is used in the mobile to read different parameter values and these values are also dis played by using the LCD attached to the kit. This model is ecofriendly and more useful to farmer. Solar insect trap is one of the techniques used to trap the insects but the technique provided is not of higher maintenance, battery backup and ESP8266 Wi-Fi module is not included and different parameters like moisture, temperature is not detected in the existing technique.