Msc-IoT Thesis done

Smart Soil Monitoring Application

Internet of things has changed the way of working and monitoring things in different domains; through this research; the internet of things is applied in agriculture for monitor the composition of soil parameters such as soil potential Hydrogen (pH), moisture, humidity and temperature.

The proposed Smart Soil Monitoring Application (SSMA) collects accurate, reliable, timely data of soil status and plays a big role in decision making for crop production improvements and fertilizer requirements in the soil. In this research, data for soil compositions were collected by sensors and sent to microcontroller Arduino Nano to be analyzed. The Smart Soil Monitoring Application system consists of Arduino Nano, Soil pH sensor, moisture sensor and DHT11 for collecting data about humidity and temperature.

ESP8266 WiFi module enables the system to take the sensed data to the cloud and the collected data are displayed via a dashboard (web based application) and accessed by farmers on android application installed in their smart phone.
The obtained preliminary results confirm the efficiency of the proposed SSMA for real-time monitoring soil parameters and thus contributing to the production growth in Rwanda.