The Prospect of Precision Farming: Internet of Things (IOT) Context
*Ogoh Brendan C. & Eke James.
1Department of Electrical/Electronic Engineering,
Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu State Nigeria
Email: brenchuks@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Agricultural operations started before colonization. Pre-colonial age gave birth to civilization, and farming and later continued as conventional farming practice in Nigeria. Being an agricultural country, Nigeria’s farming is reliant on rain, soil, dampness, and environmental challenges. Our farmers metamorphosed into modern state of art technology in cultivation. Worldwide, IoT systems have added their application in many fields and proven to be profitable. It is time that Nigerian farmers
initiated precision agricultural systems for greater crop yield. Data from sensors situated in the farm are gotten through the Arduino hardware, conditioned and wirelessly sent to a cloud analytics platform Thing Speak, where they are stored, analyzed, and monitored automatically to ensure they do not surpass set threshold values. The effectiveness of farming lies in a farmer’s capability to imagine natural conditions and respond to them in the quickest way possible. Decades ago, the precision of such predictions wasn’t so reliable — now, it’s astonishingly high thanks to immediate data collection and distribution. The Precision agriculture system can
be managed from anywhere with aid of networking technology. Continuous research and development in precision Agriculture & Internet of things IoT technology can be cutting-edge technology in data compiling and resource optimization. Keywords: SMART (S-Specific, M-Measurable, A- Attainable, R-Realistic TTime Bound) Precision, Soil moisture sensor, Humidity sensor, Temperature sensor, Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), Arduino, Networking, WIFI and IoT (Internet of Things).
