Smart Farm for Agriculture

Abstract

Global livestock farm management is rapidly changing in response to globalization and growing demand to reduce the utilization of human resources to step forward with smart farming management. At present, people tend to use IoT to bring this sector of livestock management into a smart and convenient industry by using many new technological features.When it comes to Sri Lanka, automated technology has not touched the farming sector. Farms in Sri Lanka can be categorized into livestock farming and agricultural farming. Livestock farms are maintained manually using human forces, and only a few types of machinery are used. Also, the security level of these farms is not concerned by the farmers. So, they face many security issues such as loss of animals, entry of unknowns. The farmers are less concerned about animal health conditions. Smart farm research project is focused on identify existing problems in livestock farm management and provide a solution by using new technologies.Researchers develop the “Smart Farm” software product focuses on livestock farming using IoT technologies. Also, the mobile app that built can control and manage livestock farms including user management, communication management, shift management, issue management, and controller management. The physical model farm that was created, indicates the capabilities of this project and demonstrates four key areas of cleaning unit, food feeding unit, water controlling unit and gate controlling unit. All the controllers can be easily handled through the Smart Farm mobile app