Internet of Plants Application for Smart Agriculture

Nowadays, Internet of Things (IoT) is receiving a great attention due to its potential strength and ability to be integrated into any complex system. The IoT provides the acquired data from the environment to the Internet through the service providers. This further helps users to view the numerical or plotted data. In addition, it also allows objects which are located in long distances to be sensed and controlled remotely through embedded devices which are important in agriculture domain. Developing such a system for the IoT is a very complex task due to the diverse variety of devices, link layer technologies, and services. This paper proposes a practical approach to acquiring data of temperature, humidity and soil moisture of plants. In order to accomplish this, we developed a prototype device and an android application which acquires physical data and sends it to cloud. Moreover, in the subsequent part of current research work, we have focused towards a temperature forecasting application. Forecasting metrological parameters have a profound influence on crop growth, development and yields of agriculture. In response to this fact, an application is developed for 10 days ahead maximum and minimum temperatures forecasting using a type of recurrent neural network.

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