An Application-Driven IoT Based Rooftop Farming Model for Urban Agriculture

Presently, the urban world are switching to rooftop farming with technology support to cope with the increasing food demand and effective utilization of various resources. But the monitoring of farming in high raised building (rooftop) is little challenging. This paper presents an IoT based smart rooftop irrigation system to efficiently manage water dispersal and provides improved urban based rooftop farming productivity. The proposed model regularly monitors soil temperature and moisture level, i.e., rooftop farming are irrigated automatically without physical presence of planter and it also uses smart mobiles for irrigation control. The proposed automatic irrigation farming modal uses sensor technology, communication technology and embedded hardware technology. That is, the atmospheric weather data such as moisture level and water level are collected periodically from different part of rooftop farm area and it is analyzed, which will trigger the switching of water motor/overhead tank pump and send status updates to the planter.