AI Based Real-Time Weather Condition Prediction with Optimized Agricultural Resources
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https://doi.org/10.47672/ejt.1496Keywords:
AI, IoT, Weather Prediction, Smart Irrigation, Smart Fertigation, Fuzzy LogicAbstract
Purpose: Unpredictable and rapid change in weather patterns has great impact on agricultural activities, especially for precision agriculture that results in worsened water resources availability, decreased soil fertility, use of pesticide as well as decreased yield productivity. In attempt to alleviate these challenges, this study aims at developing a real-time weather and farm field data driven Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) system that analyze, manage and schedule irrigation and fertigation as well as enabling farmers to interact with their farms via Smart phone or PCs to optimize energy and water resources.
Methodology: The system employs weather condition monitoring sensors such as atmospheric pressure, air temperature, air humidity and wind speed for collecting real-time farm field data and uses Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) to predict rainfall rate at farm area for 24 hours period. The system also gathers field data such as soil moisture content and soil nutrient content and uses the Machine Learning (ML) algorithms to predict the time for irrigation and fertigation. By combining weather and farm field data, the system schedules the irrigation and fertigation activity. In addition, the mobile application is developed for the farmers to interact, control and monitor the farming activities and the data is presented to the farmers in both graphical and numerical formats.
Findings: The system prototype deployed and tested in the two hectors Maize farm proved that 55% of water, 51% of energy and 20% of fertilizer were saved as well as increases in 20% of Maize yield production compared to previous season.
Recommendations: Since the current irrigation and fertigation practices are based on predetermined time of the day and threshold values for automatic irrigation, this solution introduced the new concept of real-time and short-term weather forecasting that enables farmers to balance the irrigation period and weather pattern for water and fertilizer resources optimization.
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