Early Detection of Borer Insects Tomatoes by IoT Based on Smart Farming System

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IJSTE - International Journal of Science Technology & Engineering | Volume 3 | Issue 09 | March 2017 ISSN (online): 2349-784X

Early Detection of Borer Insects Tomatoes by IoT based on Smart Farming System Ramkumar. R PG Student Department of Computer Engineering Kumaraguru College of Technology Coimbatore, India

Kaliappan.S Assistant Professor Department of Computer Engineering Kumaraguru College of Technology Coimbatore, India

Vignesh.L PG Student Department of Computer Engineering Kumaraguru College of Technology Coimbatore, India

Abstract Every year farmers practice huge losses due to pest plague in crops & this in turn impacts his living. In this paper we discuss a novel advance to solve this problem by regularly monitoring crops using video dispensation, cloud computing and robotics. The paper concentrates in methodologies to categorize pests in one of the most admired fruits in the world – the tomato. An approaching into how the thought of the Internet of Things can also be conceptualized in this project has been elaborated. Keywords: Early Pest Detection, Fruit Plucking, Growth Stages, Internet of Things (IOT), Tomato Detection, Video Processing ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I.

INTRODUCTION

For a increasingly developing nation such as India, agriculture is one of the most significant sources of income to the country [1]. It must be noted that agriculture only constitutes almost 22% of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which is indeed a significant number [2]. It is due to this fact, that governments of several developing countries set aside a large part of their economic budget for the growth, development and introducing systematic and technologically sophisticated methodologies for farming each year. In a farmer’s perspective, such initiatives would assist them in producing better surrender and safeguarding their manufacture, thus improvising their lifestyles as well. However, even though such programmes exist, farmers extend to be plagued by three major areas of concern – insufficient water supply (irrigation), attack of crops by pests & insects and thirdly - failure in properly storing manufacture which in turn might be attacked by pests and rodents [3]. Over the past few years, a lot of research has been carried out to overcome the aforesaid problems. Usage of cloud seeding techniques and construction of barrage or dams near villages have reduced the water disaster to some extent [4]. Modern storage techniques which include utilizing rodent exterminators keep rodents at cove [5]. But when it comes to prevention of vermin or insects from attacking crops, the usual practice is to spray continual amounts of pesticides. Though efficient this practice comes with its own set of disadvantages. Extreme use of pesticide can lead to beyond repair damage to the environment. Being at the top end of the food chain, this would also create dangerous health issues to humans, including birth defects. With respect to farmers, direct contact to these chemicals often lead to skin diseases and extended use might lead to cancer [6]. A solution to this issue, is by spraying bug killer on crops only when need required and also by eliminating those crops or fruits already affected by vermin. This solution though simple, would require a constant monitoring by the farmer which would turn out to be infeasible due to various reasons such as the lack of the agriculturist at all points of time. Ill health of farmers might also constitute for his/her lack from the farm. Therefore, in order to address this major issue, we describe a work of fiction, innovative and a fully automated method to perform a constant observation of the farm at all points of time, even in the absence of the farmer. The major attentiveness of this paper lies in identifying fruits of crops in their early immature stages and also to monitor them for any disease or bug infestation. If in case any disease or bug activity is detected, such fruits could be immediately eliminated in turn preventing spreading of the same to other healthy crops. Pesticides, insecticides and also bio-control of pests [7] could be utilized for immediate removal. For all experiments conducted, we utilized the Tomato plant (Solanum lycopersicum), since it is one of the most widely grown crops in the world [8s]. Tomatoes commonly get affected, in their growing stages (unripe stages), by a pest known as the borer insect Helicoverpa armigera [9], which is usually recognized by a black color hole in the fruit through which it enters [10]. In order to identify the same, a complete video processing application using Java was developed and was deployed using cloud computing which has been detailed further in this paper. The next section describes few other existing methods using real time video processing to identify immature tomatoes. Section III of this paper discusses the setup used for our testing and also that deployed on the cloud. The complete video processing algorithm developed is elaborated in section IV along with the results obtained in section V. Section VI deals with the future scope of this research with some insights into further extensions. All rights reserved by www.ijste.org

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