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India is the second-largest irrigated country, but only one-third of the area is irrigated. It is due to uncertain rainfall and lack of water. Most of the areas need canals to be built for irrigation without being depending on the rainfall. The utilization of water is very important for irrigation.The implementation of IoT agriculture starts with intelligent irrigation for the majority of fields. Optimizing the water schedule and quantity of water helps us to save water, money, and have the best crop on the field. Sensor-based IoT technology gathers soil moisture, temperature, humidity data, and transmits this information to farm irrigation systems from sensors. A platform responds to these signals and the drip irrigation switches on as soon as there is insufficient water in the soil. Our paper is designed to overcome the problem of irrigation by reducing the usage of water while watering the plants. The proposed system uses sensors like a soil moisture sensor, temperature, and humidity sensor. The microcontroller is used to send data to Blynk and Thing Speak, Blynk application is used to monitor the data, and Thing Speak cloud is used to store the data. This system provides a feasible monitoring platform and automates the irrigation process. This leads to a transition from traditional farming to modern farming. Over 74 years since independence, India has made immense progress towards agriculture.

Keywords: IoT, Blynk, Thing Speak, Irrigation, Automation

INTRODUCTION:

Indian agriculture is diverse ranging from traditional farming practices to utilizing modern agricultural technologies.At present most of the farmers are using a labor-intensive irrigation method, where labor is required for watering the plants and it takes a lot of time to irrigate the whole land. They irrigate the land at regular intervals throughout the crop period.Technology in agriculture is growing day by day and showing usgood results. IoT plays a major role in the evolution of agriculture towards technology. The main objective of this paper is to automate the process of irrigation using IoT. Mobile devices are used to monitor the sensor data from the microcontroller, this data can be accessed from anywhere in the world with the help of the internet. Using IoT in agriculture helps to automate the whole process and save a lot of time and energy...

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