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IoT Based Farming System

ChekHong LEE, Manickam RAMASAMY1, S.DEIVASIGAMAni,
M.K.A.Ahamed KHAN
Faculty of Engineering, Technology &Built Environment UCSI University, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia

Abstract. The proposed IoT based farming system was built with the Arduino
board, Node MCU and various sensors. The IoT platform used to support this project
was Blynk. The prototype consists of two nodes that are transmitter node and
receiver node. The transmitter node sends the sensing data including temperature,
humidity, motion, and soil moisture to the receiver node. Meanwhile, the water
pump was activated when the soil moisture was lower than 25% and off if the soil
moisture was higher or equal to 25%. In receiver node, the various data was
displayed in the OLED display and sent to the Blynk cloud simultaneously. The
users of this system can monitor their crops using mobile application and websites.
The DHT22 was able to measure high accurate data by comparing the results with
infrared thermometer sensor and the PIR motion sensor detects the far motion up to
8 meters. The maximum RSSI value of LoRa WAN data transmission in this project
was up to -86.9dBm when the distance between transmitter and receiver was 10
meters but the wireless connection was still function because the result is still not
lower than the noise floor which is -120dBm and there will be no loss of data in
LoRaWAN, this proved LoRa was the suitable network architecture in the field of
agriculture.

Keywords. Arduino, Blynk control, LoraWAN, NodeMcu ESP8266, IoT based

Farming system.

1. Introduction

Malaysia is located in Southeast Asia, the climate in Malaysia is equatorial and the
temperature ranging from 23°C to 31°C throughout the year. Due to the adequate rainfall,
uniform temperature and high humidity given a suitable congenital condition to develop
agriculture in Malaysia. In fact, Malaysia is the world’s second largest palm oil producer
(26% of the world production) and exporter (34% of world export) after Indonesia. A
study showed that, 11% of the population is employed in different sectors of Malaysia
and the agriculture contributes 7.1% to the national GDP in 2019. However, the smart
agriculture system which adopts in Malaysia is still relatively slow. This is due to the
high cost of smart agriculture machine and the lack of information about smart
agriculture to the farmers [1]. The demand of the food is increasing day by day due to
the unequal food supply and the increasing population. Therefore, supply by the
traditional farming method cannot keep up with the demand [2].

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Corresponding Author, Manickam Ramasamy, Faculty of Engineering, Technology &Built Environment
UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Email: ManickamRamasamy@ucsiuniversity.edu.my