WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSN) TECHNOLOGY FOR PRECISION AGRICULTURE: A NEW CONCEPT IN MODERN AGRICULTURE

Abstract

: Agriculture is the backbone of Indian economy and contributes around 21% role in GDP. With agriculture being the primary economic sector of India, it is essential to automate it to increase efficiency. Precision agriculture is an option to produce high quality food and raw material in sufficient amount for the consumers. WSN can show the path to the rural farming community to replace some of the traditional techniques. For supplying the food without restricting the demands of growing population, it is required to use modern machinery and farm equipments of high efficiencies to developed a fully automated mechanized farm without causing environmental pollution. The planning of this mechanized farm is only possible by application of Wireless Sensor technology to manage all activities and processes in integration to ensure food security. Wireless sensor technology has potential to analyze the sensed data. Today WSN is not only used in agriculture, widely used in interdisciplinary branch as nuclear reactor control, surveillance and security etc. This paper presents an overview on recent development of wireless sensor technologies in various agriculture sectors to produce best agriculture products through precisely management of irrigation, detection of essential plant micro-nutrients of an existing cropping pattern etc. by using modern technologies in low prices. Thus, wireless sensor technology is only the option to do all these activities in a planned and managed way by using agriculture remote sensors to achieve ultimately more profit from different interlinked agricultural activities.