Design and Development of IoT-Based SmartTech-Agri Devices for Smart Agriculture Crop Field

Internet of Things (IoT) technology adds new direction to the significant monitoring of soil, plants, and agriculture fields in smart agriculture. In this system, IoT-based solutions are employed to enhance the agricultural outcomes and resolve the different problems. Here, an IoT-based device is proposed namely “SmartTech-Agri.” This device is designed to supervise the different parameters: soil moisture, air temperature, air humidity, smoke detection, and animal motion detection in the agricultural field. Our proposed device uses a PIR motion sensor to detect movement of intruders, smoke sensor to detect smoke, soil moisture sensor to evaluate moisture percentage, and temperature–humidity sensor to measure environmental temperature in the agriculture field. The proposed design consists of three main major portions: (a) an Arduino-based IoT gadget, (b) a Smartphone application, and (c) a Web server application. The SmartTech-Agri can evaluate different parameters and instantly communicate vital associated information via web-based technologies. The proposed design has been compared with existing recent related works. The accuracy of our device varies from − 2.82 to + 3.85% for humidity and − 2.66 to + 3.14% in case of temperature. This low-cost technology can be utilized for farming production and management in a convenient and effective manner. This approach will lower the overall labor costs and cut down on water waste.