Project Description

India is primarily an agriculture-based country and agriculture depends on monsoon. Recently due to climatic conditions monsoon has become uncertain which makes farmer opt for irrigation. This emphasizes farmers to efficiently utilize the scarcely available water for high yield. Hence, this project focuses on introducing a novel idea of using magnetic induction (MI) coils for underground (UG) communication to achieve efficient agricultural data transfer for smart irrigation. MI sensor system prototype including moisture sensor, temperature sensor, transceiver coils, microcontroller etc. for analyzing various agriculture parameters such as soil moisture, air humidity, temperature, soil nutrients. MI sensor system prototype was developed; agricultural data from different parts of the field is collected by MI communication and sent to user’s mobile app through cloud. IoT based app is developed for easy access of field sensor data in mobile. The real field is monitored and their data is recorded through Blynk app. Prototype was successfully tested at in-lab UG test bed and real time field by deploying various sensors at a distance of 1m. In future additional sensors pertaining to soil pH and nutrient content will be included.

Publications

Journal:

1. Swathi S, Sakthivel Murugan S, “Design of Filamentary planar spiral coils with enhanced channel model for magnetic induction based underground communication”, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies", May 2021, Vol: 32, Issue: 5, pp 1-25.

2. Swathi S, Sakthivel Murugan S, “ PCB planar and filamentary planar spiral coils based underground Magnetic induction communication with enhanced channel model”, Wireless Personal Communications", May 2021, Vol: 118, Issue: 2, pp 1-27. 

3. Swathi S, Sakthivel Murugan S “Performance Analysis of MI Transmission over EM for Underground Communication”, International Journal of Emerging Research in Management & Technology, May 2017, Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 467-471.

Conferences

1. Raagavi B, Swathi S, Sakthivel Murugan S, “Metamaterial enhanced Magnetic Induction based Underground Wireless Communication”, National Conference on Communication and Information Technologies (NCICT) held at  SSNCE, Chennai, 12th June 2020.

2. Swathi S, Sakthivel Murugan S, “An Efficient MI Waveguide Based Underground Wireless Communication for Smart Irrigation”, IEEE India Council International Conference INDICON-2017, 15th - 17th Dec 2017, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee. (IEEE Xplore) 

3. Swathi S, Sakthivel Murugan S, “Performance Analysis of MI Transmission over EM for Underground Communication”, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Science & Engineering ICETSE-2017, 11th - 12th May 2017, Coorg Institute of Technology, Karnataka. (Best Paper award) 

4. Swathi S, Sakthivel Murugan S, “Magnetic Induction based wireless underground sensor network system for agriculture automation”, Young Scientist Conclave, 2nd India International Science Festival, 7th – 11th Dec 2016, National Physical laboratory, New Delhi. (Best Poster award)