LoRa Wireless Micro Irrigation: Advantages and Challenges

Abstract

Water management in Agriculture is a challenging task. Traditional irrigation systems like flood irrigation and micro irrigation may give too much or too little water, which causes improper crop growth and yield. Automating micro irrigation makes water usage more accurate. LoRa technology is suitable for this, because it has long range communication and works even in remote areas where internet or mobile network is not available. This paper presents a simple LoRa based wireless micro irrigation model that operates without internet and supports operation of Pump and latching solenoid valves using very low power. The concept, workflow, advantages and challenges are discussed in this paper.