Modernization in Agriculture using GSM and XBEE Technology

In the present agricultural scenario creating the balance between the increasing population and decreasing food availability is the biggest challenge, so the traditional agricultural methods has to be replaced by the modern agricultural methods to eliminate manual mistakes in supply of fertilizers and over watering. The goal is to provide long term sustainable solution for automation of agriculture with real time intelligence provided by the Irrigation Data centre(IDC). The IDC is a data base with access to the real time information related to agriculture. This paper describes the automated irrigation system to make effective utilization of water resources and fertilizers by monitoring crop growth with the implementation of Sensor Node(SN) consisting of soil moisture sensor, IR transceiver, humidity and temperature sensor in the field. The signals from the sensors are coordinated by the processor of the XBee and transmitted to irrigation control centre(ICC) through XBee wireless radio communication module. The optimized usage of water for an agriculture crops has been achieved in the ICC successfully.