Cloud based agricultural field parameters monitoring using ESP8266 and ZigBee

. To improve the production of agricultural, monitoring of the different parameters in the field has been proven to be the powerful tool. With the advent of technology crop monitoring may be achieved at very precise level; however Wireless Sensor Area Network result in low power and low cost deployments and Cloud based field monitoring is becoming a dominant option. So a method has been developed for agricultural systems that act as phonological indicators of various seasonal developments in the field and number of climate effect upon the regional growth over the crop for a broad region using (IoT) Internet of Things. The developed platform has been evaluated for various field parameters, creating a WSAN with a base station to record various parameters and finally uploaded this parameter to the Internet server. The performance result of the developed system has shown the feasibility and confirms its future aspects in broad sense.


Introduction
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Proposed system
The system is developed over the Arduino Uno open source platform. For the agricultural monitoring the different type of sensors which are mainly utilizes for the agricultural parameter are deployed with the Arduino unit which is acting as the controller unit [15]. Now the each node is powered by the battery source and with the zigbee to transmit the data in the surrounding. There are multiple node that having all these agricultural monitoring sensors and deployed with the zigbee to create a network of n number of parameter monitoring nodes. There is a base station that is collect-ing the data of all these wireless nodes. The data is received serial-ly form the transmitter nodes and differentiate at the base station. Finally this data is uploaded to the server through the NodeMCU open source platform and can be access through the webserver or through the mobile aap which is connected to internet.  The status of digital sensor can be read directly over the digital pin of the Arduino Uno but for the analog sensors the output of the sensors is read through the ADC of the controller which finally provide the digital levels corresponds to the output of the sensor and these digital levels need to be calibrated with the data provided in the data sheet of the defined sensor. After data extraction, controller unit stored these data in the internal memory of the controller and retain this data until it transmit to base station through serially USART of the controller. This process is put upon the continuous loop, so sensors provide there data, controller extract it and through this data to base station serially   5 shows the architecture block diagram of the receiving node and cloud uploading of the data. In the receiving side the data is received serially through the USART of the controller. The controller needs to be a algorithm which could capable to differentiate the data of different nodes. After differentiating the data, controller stored this data on the external memory connected with the controller and then this data is extracted by the NodeMCU and finally uploaded to the cloud server so that it can be access through the webserver or through the mobile aap.

Hardware development
The software development part consists of virtually simulation of the system over the Proteus simulation. Various virtually components placed over the workspace of the simulator and interconnected with the each other. The program is developed over the open source Arduino platform as the hex file generate after suc-cessfully execution the code is dumped into the simulation to check the results. The fig. 7 shows the Proteus simulation model of the one node in which various virtual sensors are connected with the controller, data is displayed over the LCD (Liquid Crystal Display), and the data transmit through the zigbee.  In the software algorithm, transmitter side USART is initializing and ADC mode is activated. If data is available then store it and display this data over the LCD and transmit through the ZigBee and in the receiving side the USART is initialize and check whether data is available from the transmitting node or not , if available then store this data and upload to the server.

Result
This paper is for the agricultural parameter monitoring which measure the different field or crop parameters transmit the data to the base station and this data is uploaded to the cloud. The proto-type is developed using open source Arduino platform and NodeMCU. The various parameter, which are measured and up-loaded to the cloud, are helpful for the farmers and the agricultural researchers to monitor various parameter without visiting the field. The system is reliable and provides five different parameters, which are uploaded to the internet.

Conclusion and future scope
The research developed an integrated Wireless Sensor Area Network incorporated with the (IoT) Internet of Things for agri-cultural field or crop monitoring. The overall architecture is an innovative deployment of cloud computing or IoT technology. Therefore our approach is not only to monitor the data at a single base station for singe crop, but also for multiple field parameters scattered at several kilometers area throughout the globe where the internet facilities are available. The work carried out in this paper will help the researchers to know more about the cloud computing and they can implement number of technique by their new ideas. In the future extension, the cloud base monitoring can be further extended to the decision making capabilities like if farmer re-ceived the soil moisture data in his mobile aap and found that there need to be water the by simply pressing a radio button in is mobile the farer can switch on the water pump in the field.